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from 1808 to 1908 

together with an account of its 

Centennial iannibergarj* 
Celeliration 

December 18—23, 1908 



Prepared by Henry W. Jessup 
An Elder of the Church 

Under direction of the 
Centennial Committee 



1909 



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liennial Committee 
Rev. J. Ross Stevenson, D.D. — Ex Officio 



SILAS B. BROWNELL 
HENRY B. BARNES 
JOHN W. AUCHINCLOSS 
ROBERT E. BONNER 
JOHN J. McCOOE 
WARNER M. VAN NORDEN 
GEORGE B. AGNEW 
JAMES TALCOTT 
GEORGE TAYLOR 
EDWIN J. GILLIES 



EDGAR S. AUCHINCLOSS 
ROBERT W. STUART 
DR. SILAS F. HALLOCK 
ALFRED E. VONDERMHULL- 
H. EDWARDS ROWLAND 
CHARLES P. BRITTON 
A. GIFFORD AGNEW 
GEORGE F. VIETOR 
CHARLES B. ALEXANDER 
JAMES ANDERSON HAWES 



Chairman:— Si'LKS B. Brownell 

Secretary:— i AMES Anderson Hawes 

Treasurer:— A. Gifford Agnew 



Sub Committee on Arrangements 



Chairman: 



-Edwin J. Gillies 
George B. Agnew 
George Taylor 



Sub Committee on History and Publication 

Chairman:— H-EN-RY B. Barnes 

Charles B. Alexander 
James Anderson Hawes 



Sub Committee on Finance 

Chairman:— i AMES Talcott 
A. G. Agnew 
Charles P. Britton 



Copyright, 1909, By 

FIFTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 

New York. New York 



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FOREWORD. 

In 1907, a Committee, consisting of the Pastor and 
Clerk, with power to select and appoint a General Com- 
mittee from the congregation, was appointed by the Ses- 
sion to prepare for a suitable Centennial Celebration of 
the founding of this Church. 

On the 28th day of May, 1908, at a meeting of the 
General Committee, the members of which are named 
on another page, Silas B. Brownell was elected Chair- 
man. 

The following resolution was adopted : 

"That the Chairman be authorized to appoint a com- 
mittee, consisting of himself and five other members, to 
determine and report the organization of this Committee, 
the mode and form of celebration, and to appoint Com- 
mittees of arrangement, of finance, and of history, and 
to enlarge this Committee by adding members." 

Acting under the above resolution, the sub-committee 
reported, at a later meeting, the following recommenda- 
tions : 

1. That the Centennial Celebration be held on Sunday, 
December 20th, 1908 (if the way be clear), and on one 
or more week days following. 

2. That the public exercises shall include The Com- 
munion, which shall be observed on the afternoon of De- 
cember 20th, appropriate preaching services in the morn- 
ing and evening of December 20th, and such exercises on 
one or more ensuing days as may be determined by the 
Committee of Arrangement. 

3. That a historical memorial account of the century 
of the Church life and its activities and of the celebra- 
tion be pubHshed. 

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4- That three standing Committees be appointed to 
carry these recommendations into effect, each Committee 
to consist of three members, with power to add to their 
numbers, and that the Rev. Dr. Stevenson and Chairman 
Silas B. Brownell be members of each Committee, ex 
officio. 

5. That a permanent Secretary of the Centennial Com- 
mittee be appointed, also a Treasurer. 

In accordance with these recommendations, which 
were approved and adopted, the exercises were held as 
related in the program and published in this book. 



Historical Sketch and Centennial 

Celebration of the 
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church 



Insert on pages noted 



Page 90 

ELDERS 

CHOSEN 

April 22, 1896 — 
Alexander Maitland 
John Inglis 
James R. Jessup 
Edward F. Hyde 

Page 91 

DEACONS 

chosen 
April 22, 1896 — 

William Irwin 

William Sloane 

Samuel S. Auchincloss 
April I, 1906 — 

Henry R. Danner 

Page 96 

TRUSTEES 
February 14, 1898 — 
James Talcott 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 





Page 


Historical Sketch 


7 


Calendar of Church and Mission Activities 84 


Preaching and Teaching Force 


87 


Pastors and Officers, 1808- 1908 


89 


Reports of Societies and Missions — 




Home Bible School .... 


98 


Duane Street Mission .... 


104 


Alexander Chapel . . . . 


105 


Seventh Avenue Chapel 


. 108 


Young People's Association . 


109 


John Hall Memorial Chapel . 


114 


Junior Missionary Society 


115 


Young Women's Missionary Society 


117 


The Men's Society .... 


118 


The Seaside Home .... 


120 


Ladies' Auxiliary 


123 


The Princeton Seminary Association . 


127 


Chinese Sunday School 


129 


Woman's Employment Society 


131 


Loan Relief Association 


132 


Romeyn Chapel ..... 


132 


Program and Exercises .... 

A r\rMD c c c rr c 


. 136 


Edwin F. Hallenbeck, D. D. 


137 


J. Ross Stevenson, D. D. . . 14; 


2, 150, 153 


A. F. Schauffler, D. D 


162 


Charles L. Thompson, D. D. 


170 


Mr. Robert E. Speer .... 


177 


Baxter P. Fullerton, D. D. . 


186 


John F. Carson, D. D. 


. 189 


George Alexander, D. D. . 


193 


Francis L. Patton, D. D., LL. D. . 


195 


Maitland Alexander, D. D. . 


201 


Henry S. Coffin, D. D 


206 


A Deliverance on Personal Sanctificati 

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on 213 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Portraits of Pastors. 

John Hall, D. D., LL. D. (in 1897) 

John B. Romeyn, D. D. . 

Cyrus Mason . 

George Potts, D. D. 

James W. Alexander, D. D. 

Nathan L. Rice, D. D. . 

John Hall, D. D., LL. D. (in 1878) 

George T. Purves, D. D., LL. D. 

J. Ross Stevenson, D. D. 
Church Buildings. 

Cedar Street Church 

Duane Street Church 

Fifth Avenue and Nineteenth Street Church 

Fifth Avenue and Fifty-fifth Street Church 

Alexander Chapel 

Young People's Association House 

John Hall Memorial Chapel 

Sunbeam Day Nursery 

Romeyn Chapel 



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Centennial historical ©betcti 

of tht 

JFiftt) atienue Prestistetian Cj^urcj^ 

Name: 

This Church has had four names, each in turn gov- 
erned by its location. Originally incorporated in 1808, 
under the name of "The Presbyterian Church in Cedar 
Street"; its name was changed by a special act (Laws 
1835, Chapter 53) to "The Presbyterian Church in Du- 
ane Street." Again the name was changed by a special 
act (Laws 1852, Chapter 408) to the "Fifth Avenue 
Church, corner of Nineteenth Street." Finally, upon its 
removal to the present site, in 1875, it assumed its pres- 
ent name, "The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church," un- 
der an order of the Court of Common Pleas. 

Scope of this Sketch: 

The examination of the history of this organization 
has involved a study of records of the Church itself, of 
the Presbytery of New York, of the General Assembly, 
besides numerous books of biography and of church 
history. As will appear below, the growth and develop- 
ment of this Church and its increase in usefulness in the 
Church at large has been extraordinary, whether viewed 
from the standpoint of its temporalities, increasing in 
value from less than $50,000 in 1808 to nearly $2,000,000 
in 1908; or from that of its benevolences, from a few 
hundred dollars, in its early years, to upwards of $360,- 
000 in the last church year, or from that of its spiritual 
strength and of its influence in the community. The 
task has been an inspiring one. At every stage of its 
history its pastors and its leading men and women have 
been identified with the great missionary and beneficent 
activities of the community, as well as of the Church at 
large. Represented to-day on the Boards of a score of 



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charitable societies and civic organizations, it has also 
members on several Boards of the Church, on the 
Women's Boards, on the Permanent Judicial Commis- 
sion, or Supreme Court of the Presbyterian Church, and 
on Synodical and Presbyterial Committees. 

So from its first years of life its activities were wide- 
spread. Its first pastor was first Secretary of the New 
York Bible Society, of which such members of our 
Church as Divie Bethune, Zechariah Lewis and Elisha 
Coit were managers. 

Again, when the American Bible Society was organ- 
ized. May 8, 1816, Dr. Romeyn and Dr. Lyman Beecher 
were elected its secretaries, and William C. Mulligan was 
a charter member. And the third annual report, in 
181 7, records the gratification of the managers that "a 
number of females of the Presbyterian Church in Cedar 
Street, New York, have made the Rev. Dr. Romeyn 
director for life." And among the life members, sub- 
scribers of thirty dollars and upwards, are named 
Hugh Auchincloss, Divie Bethune, Archibald Gracie, 
Thomas Masters, Elisha Coit, C. G. Smedburg, as well 
as a number of the women of the church, as Mrs. Hugh 
Auchincloss, Mrs. Margaret Beers. 

So the New York City Mission and Tract Society, 
founded in 1827, has numbered on its Board, not to go 
back to the early days. Dr. John Hall and Dr. Steven- 
son, and such men as John Sinclair, Constant A. An- 
drews, John W. Auchincloss and Alexander Maitland. 

As to Princeton Seminary, it is doubtful whether this 
Church has ever been without a representative among 
either its directors or its trustees. It would prolong this 
note indefinitely if we should enumerate our represen- 
tatives on the Boards of the American Seamen's Friend 
Society, the Boards of the Church, the Hospitals of the 
city, in some of which we maintain free beds, or the 
various civic philanthrophies of this great city. 



iFiftI) atoenue pre06pteriatt Cfiurcft 9^ 

Origin of the Presbyterian Church in New York City: 

This Church was organized as one of the last acts of 
the old Presbytery of New York, in the year before the 
readjustment of the new Presbytery as constituted by 
Synod, October 5, 1809. Prior to the organization of 
our Church, the church in New York City was collegiate 
in form, and had three buildings, in Wall Street, Beek- 
man Street and Rutgers Street. Presbyterian Church 
history in New York City dates back to 1707, when the 
Rev. Mr. McKemie, from Virginia, preached the first 
sermon and baptized a child at the house of Mr. William 
Jackson, in Pearl Street, near the Battery. His exercise 
of ecclesiastical authority and power was the occasion of 
his being at once proceeded against, as was pointed out 
at the Quarter-Millennial Anniversary of the Reformed 
Protestant Dutch Church in November, 1878. Dr. 
Howard Crosby, speaking for Presbyterianism, re- 
marked : 

"We boast of being the only church in the City of 
New York that began its career amid the storm of 
persecution," and then he told the story of Mr, Mc- 
Kemie's arrest at the instance of the Established Church, 
by the Colonial Governor, Lord Cornbury, who was an 
own cousin to Queen Anne. 

But less than ten years later the first Presbyterian 
minister was settled in New York. He was the Rev. 
Mr. Anderson, who preached for three years in the City 
Hall, after which time the church in Wall Street was 
erected, contributions being secured locally, and also in 
Connecticut and in Scotland. 

Dr. Gillette, in his history of the Presbyterian Church, 
records that Dr. Rodgers, the chief minister of this col- 
legiate Church, re-entered the city the day after the 
British evacuation, and found both his Churches ruined. 
The "Brick" Church had been used as a prison, and was 
unspeakably foul and unfit for use, and the interior of 



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the "Wall Street" Church, which had been converted 
into a British hospital, was completely destroyed. 

In sharp contrast to the hostile attitude of the "Estab- 
lishment" so many years before, the Presbyterians were 
housed temporarily by the Diocese of New York, who 
permitted them to use the Chapels of St. Paul and St. 
George until their churches should be rebuilt. This is 
noted here because many years later this very Church, 
whose history we are recording, purchased St. George's 
Chapel, so called, and turned it into the Romeyn Mis- 
sion, which was so long maintained on Fourteenth 
Street. 

But there was a strong party in this collegiate church 
which was dissatisfied with the use of Watts' Psalms and 
Hymns, and, moreover, the buildings in existence were 
not quite adequate to accommodate all who desired to 
worship in the Presbyterian manner, and they had es- 
tablished themselves in Cedar Street, where they settled 
the Rev. John Mason, from Scotland, as their pastor, 
and were known as the Scotch Presbyterian Church in 
Cedar Street. They were for a time ministered to by 
Jonathan Edwards, then a young man newly ordained, 
later a Boanerges of our denomination. 

In the year 1806, a number of those connected with 
the collegiate church, dissatisfied with the system of co- 
pastors, decided, with the approval of the venerable Dr. 
Rodgers, to erect a new church and organize a new con- 
gregation. 

Origin of our Church: 

There has been providentially preserved the record of 
our Church's life, both on the part of the Session and 
of the Trustees, in spite of the great conflagration of 
December 16, 1835, in which some of the records of the 
Church were consumed by fire. Mr. Thomas Masters, 
then the Stated Clerk, had fortunately preserved his du- 




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plicate memoranda, from which, under the supervision 
of a special committee, the records were reconstructed. 
These early minutes, both of the Session and of the 
Trustees, are full of indications of the earnest, faithful 
efforts on the part of the Church officers to establish 
and maintain a church "according to the Constitution of 
the Presbyterian Church," and this laid no small burden 
of responsibility and labor on the shoulders of the early 
officers, as will shortly be illustrated. The earliest record 
reads as follows : 

"The Presbytery of New York, at their session 
the 28th day of June, 1808, in the City of New 
York, received under their care a new congregation 
in said city, who contemplated worshiping in Cedar 
Street, and permitted them to prosecute a call on the 
Rev. John B. Romeyn, of the Presbytery of Albany. 
He having accepted of said call and being installed 
pastor of this New Congregation, on the 9th day of 
November, same year, called a Meeting of the Com- 
municants of said Congregation together on the 13th 
of December following. The Meeting was opened 
with prayer, after which the Certificates of the Com- 
municants were read. The question was then put, 
whether they were willing to receive each other as 
Brethren and Sisters in the Lord and to walk with 
each other in the fellowship of the Gospel, under the 
government and discipline of the Presbyterian 
Church in this Country, which was unanimously an- 
swered in the affirmative. The following are the 
names of the persons who thus covenanted with each 
other, viz. : Hugh Auchincloss, William Cleveland, 
Samuel Darling, Thomas Darling, Elisha Ely, 
George Fitch, William Hall, Jonathan W. Kellogg, 
Zechariah Lewis, Eliakim Raymond, Daniel Smith, 
Solomon Williams, Oliver Wolcott, Mary Carring- 
ton, Betsey Coit, Nancy Darling, Eliza Lewis, Ann 



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Manwaring, Hannah Mudge, Hannah Neilson, 
Nancy Otis, Lydia Richards, Harriet Romeyn, Anna 
Todd, Mary Watson, Betsey Jackson. The Meet- 
ing was concluded with prayer." 

This action of the Presbytery had been preceded by 
the practical work of securing and erecting a church 
building. 

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jFift!) atoenue pre^fipterian CfturcJ) 13 

As early as the fifth day of January, 1807, a number 
of persons, "attached to each other by various affinities," 
and convinced that a new Presbyterian Church might be 
sustained in this city, had opened a subscription for that 
purpose, and appointed a building committee, with full 
powers to erect a house at their discretion, in Cedar 
Street, between Nassau and William Streets, and sell 
the pews at auction (subject to a yearly assessment for 
the support of the Gospel) , to reimburse the subscribers. 

In the autumn of 1808 the pews in the church were 
sold at auction for a sum exceeding the cost of the house 
and grounds, and the subscribers were paid, with in- 
terest. 

The first corporate meeting was held December 19th, 
at the house of worship, at which the pew-holders or- 
ganized under the State law and elected trustees of the 
temporalities. On the 21st of December the male com- 
municants from the list above given met and elected 
elders and deacons. Zechariah Lewis and William Cleve- 
land were elected elders, and George Fitch deacon, and 
they were duly "set apart" to their sacred offices on Jan- 
uary 1st, 1809, and met as a session January 3d, at the 
call of the Moderator for their first meeting. It is in- 
teresting to note that the male communicants alone were 
allowed to vote at the parish meetings, and the male 
members and pew-holders at the Church Corporate meet- 
ings, for a long period of our history, and it is signifi- 
cant that the Presbyterian digest contains no deliverance 
of the Assembly on the right of women to vote prior 
to the minutes of 1879, when it was decided that all 
members of the Church in full communion have the right 
to vote in the election of pastor, and, in 1897, that all 
communicants in good standing, of whatever age or sex, 
are thus entitled. At the installation of Dr. Romeyn it 
appears from the records of the Presbytery that Dr. 
Millerdoller preached the sermon from the text, "Unto 
the Jews a stumbling block." 



14 Centennial Celebration of tfte 

Gabriel P. Disosway, A. M., Corresponding Member 
of the New York Historical Society, has an interesting 
account in his 'The Earliest Churches of New York and 
Its Vicinity," from which we take the liberty of quoting i 

"A colony from the Wall Street and Brick Presby- 
terian Churches in 1807 founded the Cedar Street 
Church, Dr. Rodgers laying the corner-stone; and he 
delivered the opening sermon. A subscription toward 
the new undertaking had been commenced in sums from 
one hundred to twelve hundred dollars, and soon 
amounted to forty thousand, with which the lots were 
purchased and the edifice erected. It was deemed expe- 
dient to organize this congregation independent of the 
three other Collegiate Presbyterian Churches then in 
New York. The movement was, in fact, one of New 
England men. Elisha Coit and Selah Strong were the 
committee, with the call for Dr. Romeyn to take charge 
of the newly formed Church. Mr. John Stoutenberg 
also carried an invitation to the same gentleman, for 
him to accept the pulpits of the Reformed Collegiate 
Dutch Churches; but Dr. Romeyn accepted the Presby- 
terian. On the eighth of November, 1808, the congre- 
gation was organized, with twenty-eight members; and 
on the same day the Rev. John B. Romeyn, D.D., was 
installed its pastor. A large society soon collected, and 
he continued his labors until his death, February 22, 
1825, in the forty-eighth year of his age. . . . 

"There are many delightful associations connected with 
the 'Old Cedar Street Church.' Perhaps no congrega- 
tion in the city contained more useful and zealous mem- 
bers. Zechariah Lewis, so long connected with the 
Commercial Advertiser, and William Cleveland, were its 
first ruling elders; and later, Elisha Coit, William Hall, 

Solomon Williams, Wilson, with Rufus Nevins, 

were deacons. We find also the names of Jonathan 
Little, Ives, Fitch, J. E. Caldwell, and Divie Bethune, 
Markoe, Masters, Hugh Auchincloss and Cyrenius Beers 



ififtt) atienue pre06ptetian Cfiurcft 15 

among the elders. Few churches exhibited so many 
venerable faces in its aisles and pews as Old Cedar 
Street presented. General Ebenezer Stevens, with a 
family of six sons, Colonel Loomis, Colonel Varick, 
Archibald Gracie, Mr. Walcott, afterwards the governor 
of Connecticut, Benjamin Strong, Amasa Jackson, James 
and WiUiam Lovett, William Codman, Derling, Irvings, 
Griswolds, Robert Halliday, Stephen Whitney, John B. 
Murray, William Halsted, Hubbard, Gordon Buck, Levi 
Coit, that most excellent and useful citizen, Mr. Aspin- 
wall, &c. There was quite a party for calling Mr. Hol- 
ley, afterward a distinguished preacher among the Uni- 
tarians. Dr. Romeyn manifested a great interest in 
the spiritual welfare of children, and secured their affec- 
tion by his familiar manner of calling them all by name. 
His catechetical exercises were esteemed among his most 
useful, often nearly two hundred attending the classes, 
from five and six years of age to eighteen. In hearing 
the recitations he would be assisted by the elders, then- 
adding such explanations and remarks as were profitable 
to all. Dr. Romeyn's ministry was owned and blessed 
by the great Head of the Church, and many heads of 
families among our prominent citizens professed faith 
in Christ during his Christian labors. For a long time 
from twelve to sixteen persons were added to the con- 
gregation every communion day. Many came by let- 
ters from other churches; and among such the excellent 
and pious Mrs. Isabella Graham, Divie Bethune and 
wife, and Colonel Richard Varick, &c. Of the sixty- 
seven persons who united originally in the subscriptions 
for building the Cedar Street Church, only one is known 
to be living. This is the esteemed and venerable William 
Hall, now in his eightieth year, and residing at Cleveland, 
Ohio. He has been greatly blessed in his earthly pilgri- 
mage, having two sons in the sacred office and one 
daughter the wife of a minister. Of the twenty-eight 
who founded this church, only two were living a few 



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months ago, Peletiah Perit and Mr. Hall; but th« 
former, that excellent citizen and faithful Christian, has 
recently gone to his heavenly mansion and rewards, and 
the venerable Mr. Hall alone is left. In speaking of 
this fact himself, he says: 'Our fathers, where are 
they? And the prophets, do they live forever?'" 

In another sketch it is recorded in connection with Dr. 
Romeyn's installation, as pastor: 

"The Cedar Street Church was a new enterprise, al- 
most all men of high social position in various walks of 
life, many of them New England men; and I have an 
idea that its origin was in some way connected with 
politics, as I recollect it used to be called 'The Federal 
Church,' although Dr. Romeyn was never a political 
preacher." 

It may seem a small thing that a congregation should 
thus secede because of the form in which God was wor- 
shiped in song in the sanctuary. It is significant, 
therefore, to note in the life of John Mitchell Mason, 
D.D., who was the pastor of the Murray Street Church, 
that while his church was building "the infant congre- 
gation to which he ministered held their meetings for 
public worship in the Presbyterian Church in Cedar 
Street But though this arrangement was ex- 
ceedingly pleasant to him, it was an occasion of some 
subsequent annoyance, as he suffered it to bring him 
into more intimate relations with Dr. Romeyn's Church 
than were thought by some of his brethren to consist 
with his obligations to his own denomination (namely, 
the Associate Reformed Church), not only joining with 
them in the ordinance of the Lord's Supper, but using 
what, with the Associate Reformed Church, was an un- 
authorized version of the Psalms," and the biographer 
goes on to show that this alleged delinquency of Dr. 
Mason came up as a matter of formal investigation be- 
fore their Synod in 1811, and some conciliatory resolu- 
tion on the part of the Synod was made the subject of 



jFiftf) atienue pre^tipterian Cfturcfi 17 

severe animadversion in the Reformed Church, espe- 
cially by ministers and churches out West. 
The First Pastorate: 

John Brodhead Romeyn, D.D. (born in 1777, died 
1825), was a remarkable man. His life is fully re- 
corded in Sprague's "Annals of the American Pulpit," 
volume 4, page 215. He was originally destined, we 
see from another source, to the bar, and perhaps his 
legalistic bent not only accounts for much in the history 
of his pastorate, but also was of the highest value to 
him and to his people in the establishment of a new 
church under a form of government still in many re- 
spects in the developmental stage. He studied in the 
academy which developed into Union College; was ad- 
mitted at the age of seventeen to the senior class in 
Columbia College, and studied theology under his own 
venerable father and John H. Livingston, D.D. Li- 
censed to preach in 1798, at the age of 21, he served 
pastorates in Rhinebeck and in Albany before being 
called to New York. He was a man of great brilliancy, 
and, though his health was feeble, his energy was pro- 
digious. From his private diary the following note is 
taken, showing his attitude with regard to the call from 
the Cedar Street Church : 

"I discouraged the idea; but they made out the call, 
and prosecuted it, notwithstanding that discouragement. 
It was offered to me because they knew I was not in 
good health, and a change might be of service. The 
Cedar Street Church bids fair to be large and respect- 
able; and, from the character of the subscribers, a 
Gospel ministry, if successful among them, will have 
the most salutary effects upon a large portion of the 
inhabitants of the city. The members are unanimous in 
the call made on me. My wife's health will, I believe, 
be benefited by sea air. My mother and sister approve 
of a removal. These considerations, added to my health, 
seem to make it my duty to remove." 



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The year after he came to New York, Princeton gave 
him the degree of D.D., and the following year he was 
elected Moderator of the General Assembly of 1810, and 
we find in the minutes of that Assembly record of a 
great revival in the city. 

The following description of Dr. Romeyn is taken 
from a letter from Rev. Thomas E. Vermilye, D.D., 
written December 8, 1856: 

'Tn person, Dr. Romeyn was about the medium height, 
of a compact, well-proportioned frame, rather spare 
habit, and of a very nervous temperament, which showed 
itself in the animation of his fine, intelligent eye and 
expressive countenance, in ready utterance, and in grace- 
ful but rapid and decisive motions of the body. This 
ran through everything he did. There was nothing un- 
certain or vacillating in his manner; no hesitation ap- 
parently in his mind; nothing sluggish or slow in his 
composition. His opinions were clearly conceived and 
boldly expressed. His purposes were promptly formed 
and executed with energy. He seemed to enter with 
heart, and soul, and mind, and strength into whatever 
he undertook : literally, what he found to do he did 
with all his might. This was so in and out of the pulpit. 
I suppose a stranger would not be long in his company 
without saying to himself: 'This man has all his facul- 
ties about him and is all awake.' And yet he was not a 
bustler, but most efficient in forming and executing his 
plans. He was a cheerful companion, frank and unre- 
served, and very genial with the young. Yet there was 
no frivolity or want of proper dignit)^ I do not re- 
call a single jest or witticism ascribed to him. But I 
remember him, at the period of his greatest success, as 
earnest and even intense in the performance of his ap- 
propriate duties, seeming to feel deeply his responsi- 
bilities, and, as much as any man I ever knew, to aim 
at making full proof of his ministry. His quick step, 
downcast eye, and deeply serious, absorbed air, as he 




JOHN B. ROMEYN, D.D. 



Siitb atienue pre0&ptenan Cfiutcft 19 

passed up the broad aisle and took his position in the 
pulpit, and prepared for the service, illustrate this remark 
very well, and were perfectly characteristic of the 
man .... 

''Dr. Romeyn was made, however, for the pulpit. All 
his natural tastes and mental training seemed to have 
peculiar reference to that sphere. As a preacher, you 
know, he stood eminent — in some respects 'primus inter 
pares/ among the great lights our city could boast at 
that day. And in Mason, McLeod, Millerdorfer, and 
others, it then enjoyed a ministry rarely equaled, and 
perhaps never surpassed. The substance of his preach- 
ing was sound, edifying Gospel truth; although he was 
very apt to seize on passing events, and turn them with 
very great effect to a spiritual use. His sermons were 
usually well arranged and well expressed, as was requi- 
site to suit the taste of one of the most intelligent and 
refined congregations in the country. But there was no 
subtle process of reasoning: and what was singular, 
when you consider the marked effects of his minis- 
trations, he dealt very sparingly in figures of speech or 
fine writing. There were few delicate touches of fancy, 
or bold flights of imagination : there was no splendid 
diction nor carefully wrought and sustained rhetoric. 
In fact, he was very little of a rhetorican. But there 
was most momentous truth, and there was Hfe and 
vivacity, pathos and downright energy, and perfect 
naturalness and sincerity, which gave the preacher the 
victory, and made him, what he was, for several years, 
to say the least, not inferior in popularity and success to 
any of his compeers. His ordinary animation and his 
sweet, full, flexible voice, though managed with no art, 
were always pleasant. But at times every line of his 
face, even his whole frame, became instinct with pas- 
sion, and then the eye kindled or tearful — the very soul 
speaking through the body that trembled with emotion 
or erected itself to an attitude of authority — the torrent 



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of feeling often subdued and carried away his hearers 
with responding emotion. I can hardly tell why — ^but 
Dr. Romeyn and young Spencer, of Liverpool, have al- 
ways been associated in my mind, as having strong points 
of resemblance. Certainly I think that, so far as the 
pulpit is concerned. Dr. Romeyn, in his prime, was en- 
titled to be called one of the very first preachers of his 
day. 

''His success corresponded with this description .... 
for years this house overflowed. Prayer meetings and 
evening lectures were well sustained. He was aided by 
a most efficient board of elders ; and the accessions to the 
church were numerous at almost every Communion sea- 
son. Especially were his labors blessed among the 
young. His catechetical classes on Wednesday after- 
noons were crowded. He threw such attraction around 
them that we longed for the day: and among this class, 
and through this instrumentality, very much of his use- 
ful labor was performed. Of a very large Bible class 
of young ladies, every one, I think he told me, became a 
professor of religion. More young men became minis- 
ters from his congregation than from any other. And 
the churches in the city from that day to this have drawn 
a large proportion of elders and deacons, and our be- 
nevolent societies hiany of their most active members 
and officers, from among the men who were trained 
under him." 

The following is the tablet now in the vestibule of 
the present church : 

"In Memory 

of 

John Brodhead Romeyn, D.D., 

The First Pastor of this Church; 

A Faithful and Persuasive Preacher; 

The Supporter of Public Institutions; 

The Patron of indigent merit, and 



jFiftft atoenue preisfipterian Cfturcft 21 

A Father to the young. 

A liberal and polite Scholar; 

A Fearless Advocate of truth, 

And a warm and true friend. 

His faithfulness is recorded on high; 

His success in the hearts of his people. 

He was born Nov. 8, 1777; 

And entered into rest 

22nd Feb., 1825 ; 

In the 48th year of his age, 

The 26th of his ministry and the 

17th of his pastoral care of 

This Church. 

Also of his wife, 

Harriet Bleecker, 

Who died 22nd October, 1825; 

In the 45th year of her age 

Eminent for her piety and 

Christian virtues. 

They Sleep in Jesus." 

First Session: 

Under the leadership of such a man it was reasonable 
to expect that the spiritual work of the church would be 
well organized, and this is certainly manifest from the 
records of the Session of those days. It is a quaint old 
volume, the handwriting is cramped, but clear; it con- 
tains the signatures of men of note as Moderator of 
Presbytery from time to time by whom the records were 
approved, and it pictures forth sometimes by what its 
records, and sometimes between the lines, the burdens 
carried, the problems solved, and the joys and comforts 
experienced by these faithful men. 

The position of Elder in the Cedar Street Church was 
no sinecure. Dr. Romeyn not only believed in the cove- 
nant obligations of his church members, but he saw to 



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it by personal oversight, being an "episcopos" in the 
original New Testament sense, that his parishioners 
lived up to these obligations. He divided his Session as 
soon as it v^^as increased in number into four divisions, 
and set each as a committee in charge of an equal part 
of the church, and they vuere directed to engage in con- 
stant visitation and to report statedly at the Session 
meetings. Every dereliction of Christian duty v^as, if 
we may use the word, ''pounced" upon, whether the 
offense, or "crime," as it was usually denominated in 
the record, was that of intemperance, or of engaging in 
bursts of profanity, or of engaging in personal quar- 
rels, as some of the colored communicants seemed to 
be unfortunate enough to do, or of entertaining unor- 
thodox views on the subject of baptism, or of absenting 
themselves from the Lord's Supper, or, in a particular 
case, of marriage with a deceased wife's sister: these 
cases, whether reported directly to the Session, or com- 
ing to their ears on the wings of rumor, or, as the 
records have it, 'Jama clamosa," the first step was al- 
most always to appoint one or more of the Elders to 
visit the offender, and endeavor to bring them to con- 
fession and to a condition of penitence. If this failed, 
the machinery of the Form of Government and the 
Book of Discipline was at once set in operation, and 
while there are few cases of the extreme penalty of 
the church, there are many beautiful instances of words 
of comfort and admonition recorded at length in the 
minutes addressed to those who, when labored with in 
this friendly and affectionate manner were restored to 
their full church privileges. 

There was one interesting and obstinate case of a 
member who came to have doubts as to the validity of 
his own baptism. The Baptist Church at that time seems 
to have been active, and infant baptism was a disputed 
and mooted theological point so far as they were con- 
cerned. The brother in question was labored with for 



jfiftl) atienue Pre0ftpteriatt Cftutcft 23 

many months by the Session, and when at last it ap- 
peared that his doubts were not being resolved he was 
notified that he must come to a knowledge of the truth 
within a certain time, or take the consequences. It was 
much like the incident narrated of Dr. Jowett of Baliol 
College, who is said to have stated to a conceited student, 
who solemnly informed him that after mature considera- 
tion he had come to the conclusion that there was no 
God, "Young man, unless you come to the conclusion 
that there is a God by noon to-morrow, you may leave 
this college." 

This ''doubting Thomas'* of Cedar Street Church was 
finally dismissed by letter to the Baptist Church by a cer- 
tificate which closed as follows, as did nearly all their let^ 
ters to Baptist Churches: 

''In giving this dismission the Session deem it to be 
their duty to state that while they respect liberty of con- 
science, they cannot but consider their Baptist brethren 
as in an error on the subject of baptism." 

This letter was granted on condition that he should 
take his dismissal before being rebaptized, and was ac- 
companied by a resolution addressed to him, commenting 
on his instability of mind, his being "tossed to and fro 
and carried about with every wind of doctrine," and 
enjoining him not to think of himself more highly than 
he ought to think, and containing a further protest 
against the "error of the Baptist brethren in re-baptizing 
those who have been baptized according to the law of 
Christ's house." 

The colored membership of the early church was a 
very fruitful source of process under the book of disci- 
pline, and their frequent suspension may explain an in- 
teresting note in the private pastoral diary of Dr. James 
W. Alexander, of November 9, 1845 • 

"I find from our register that there have been twenty- 
nine black communicants in the church from the begin- 
ning. / do not think we have one to-day/' 



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Care of the Children: 

One of the earliest deliberations of the Session was 
on the subject of infant baptism, and the duty of parents 
"to fulfil the solemn obligations which the baptism of 
children has imposed upon them," and it was 

"Resolved, that on this important subject the tenor and 
spirit of the Confession of Faith, the Longer and Shorter 
Catechism, and the Directory of the Presbyterian Church 
be rigidly observed and enforced by this Session." 

As already noted of Dr. Romeyn, the children of the 
church were carefully looked after, the Elders were as- 
signed in rotation to assist the pastor in catechizing them, 
and the catechetical class was for a long time kept up 
with great fidelity, so that in the same private record of 
Dr. Alexander, nearly thirty years later, we find the roll 
of the children, one of whom, Adolphus Smedburg, still 
lives as a member of the church, in constant and faith- 
ful attendance. But the Elders seem to have fallen ofiE 
a little in their work of assistance, and Dr. Alexander 
was only able to secure the help of ladies, so that he has 
a note, June 3, 1848, with a large hand and index finger 
pointing to it: 

"To consider next year (D. V.) whether the incon- 
veniences of having aid only from ladies may not make 
it desirable to give up this mode of instruction altogether 
in this shape." 

We are fortunate in having from Mr. Henry M. Hall, 
of Lyme, Connecticut, a most interesting letter from his 
brother. Rev. John E. Hall, D.D., who died in Cleve- 
land, Ohio, about six years ago, at the age of 83. Dr. 
Hall was one of the first children baptized in the Cedar 
Street Church. His father had been a charter member 
and Elder of the West Church, then in Carmine Street, 
and was a charter member of our church. We quote the 
letter nearly in full, though in part somewhat repetitious 
of facts already noted. 



ififtl) atienue pre^fiptetian Cfturcft 25 

"Aside from what was then distinctively known as the 
"Scotch" Presbyterian Churches, Dr. John Hall's present 
church was the fourth in the order of time in the city, 
the Wall Street, the "Brick Meeting" and the Rutgers 
Street being the prior ones. It was in 1807 that the 
nucleus of the new congregation made its appearance, in 
the subscription of sixty-five gentlemen and one lady 
(Mary Watson) to build a Presbyterian house of wor- 
ship "on Cedar Street, between Nassau and William." 
A very large proportion of these subscribers were from 
the "Brick Meeting," whose pastor was the Rev. Dr. 
Gardiner Spring, himself a son of a New England pas- 
tor. At that period there was no separate congregational 
church of orthodox affinities in the city, so that orthodox 
Congregationalists coming into the city fell quietly and 
cordially into the ranks of the Presbyterians. A few, 
however, of the subscribers were apparently of Scotch 
extraction, such as Archibald Gracie, John Patrick, and 
four or five others. . . . 

"A life-size portrait of this excellent man has of late 
been presented to the Fifth Avenue Church, and there, 
by courtesy of Dr. Hall four years since, I was shown 
it as it hung on the walls of the vestry ; and with all the 
more gratification did I gaze as I thought of the fact 
that it was from his consecrated hands that I received 
the water of baptism in infancy, my father having been 
one of the original subscribers for the new building, and 
also one of the two chosen deacons of the church. 

"The main aisle of this Cedar Street house had a hand- 
some tessellated pavement, which was so much prized, 
at least by one of the congregation (Mr. Griswold), that 
he rescued it from the debris of the demolished edifice 
and relaid it in the rural church in his own native town, 
Lyme, Connecticut. On that sacred mosaic, while it was 
yet in the Cedar Street Church, there once fell prostrate 
a man under the following very extraordinary circum- 
stances: So near as I recall. Rev. John M. Mason was 



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the temporary occupant of the pulpit, when in the midst 
of the sermon a gentlemanly stranger stepped from one 
of the pews, and, standing erect in the aisle, broke out 
into these impressive lines of Cowper : 

"There stands the messenger of truth; there stands 

The legate of the skies ! His theme divine, 

His office sacred, his credentials clear." 
And then immediately collapsed to the floor. Of course, 
the astonishment of the congregation was unbounded, 
and all were agape. The unfortunate gentleman, how- 
ever, was soon tenderly removed and the services pro- 
ceeded. 

This original Cedar Street house boasted of no organ, 
the precentor occupying a chair directly in front of the 
pulpit, from which he arose when he pitched his pipe. 
The occupant of that conspicuous seat was, in my boy- 
hood, Mr. Ezekiel W. Morse, a very good man, a school- 
teacher, and who enjoyed a long uninterrupted reign 
over the Sabbath tunes of the congregation. On com- 
munion days the Lord's table was a literal exhibit, as it 
stretched down the broad aisle from the pulpit to the 
entry door, being filled by successive relays of communi- 
cants. And it was at that table, as I emotionally remem- 
ber, that I took my first communion. How apostolic 
our pastor looked as he stood at the head of it." 

It was during the pastorate of Dr. Romeyn that one 
of the earliest and longest lived societies of the church 
was founded. This was the Princeton Seminary Asso- 
ciation, an account of which, by Mrs. Alexander, is print- 
ed on another page. 

The Second Pastorate: 

After the death of Dr. Romeyn there was an inter- 
regnum of about two years. The records of the Presby- 
tery show that on October 13, 1826, Cyrus Mason was 
licensed to preach, and at the same meeting Messrs. 
Hugh Auchincloss and Oliver Willcox appeared in the 




CYRUS ]\rASON 



Jfiftj) atienue pre06pterian Cfiurcf) 27 

Presbytery as Commissioners from the Cedar Street 
Church, with a call for the Rev. Thomas DeWitt, of the 
Classis of Poughkeepsie, but he did not accept the call. 
The Rev. Dr. Payson and the Rev. Dr. Sprague had also 
been considered, but declined, so that in December of 
1826, shortly after his being licensed, Cyrus Mason was 
called and ordained pastor, and continued until 1835. 
There is no extended record of his life, but the church 
kept on growing, so much so that it became necessary 
to seek enlarged quarters. Mr. Disosway records in his 
history above quoted that 

"During his ministry this congregation removed its 
place of worship to the new elegant marble church on 
Duane Street. The old lots were sold for $75,000 in 
1834, the congregation worshiping in the lecture room 
of the Brick Church until their new edifice was finished, 
in 1835. This cost about $40,000 without the lot; and 
here the congregation removed on the first Sabbath of 
the new year 1836, assuming the name of the Duane 
Street Church." 

The real cause of the removal was the proposed action 
of the City to widen Cedar Street. The minutes of the 
Trustees show in 1833 that in spite of their protests, the 
proposed widening was determined on, and would prove 
so injurious to their property as a place of worship that 
it was resolved to move. The first site selected was four 
lots of ground at the southeast corner of Chambers and 
Chapel Streets. For these the Committee made a con- 
tract with the Corporation of Trinity Church for $40,000. 
No sooner had the contract been signed, however, than 
the City took proceedings to widen Chapel Street as well. 
Whether the vendors knew of this proposed action or 
not does not appear, except that when the Cedar Street 
Church Committee, finding that this widening would 
make the lots inadequate for their proposed building, 
purchased instead a plot fronting 100 feet on Duane 
Street and 116 feet on Church Street for $30,000, they 



28 Centennial Celeflration of tfte 

requested the Corporation of Trinity Church to release 
them from their proposed purchase. On the minutes of 
the Trustees for March 20, 1834, it is noted that they 
had received a letter from the Comptroller of Trinity 
Corporation, ''informing the Committee that payment for 
the lots will be expected agreeably to the contract." The 
Committee were subsequently able to get rid of their 
contract without substantial loss. The Duane Street 
Church adjoined the New York Hospital. 

It appears that in those days the Church had the right, 
for they exercised it, to stop traffic during Divine service 
along the street in front of the church. There is a min- 
ute July 8, 1829, of the appointment of a Committee 

"To take the necessary measures for causing a chain to 
be suspended across the street opposite the church dur- 
ing the hours of service on the Sabbath." 

In addition to the little unpleasantness with Trinity 
Corporation, the Trustees had another experience of the 
uncertainties of the law. They had been authorized to 
execute a warranty deed of the Cedar Street property 
when they moved. Many years later there is an entry in 
an old leather-bound receipt book of the Treasurer, re- 
garding the payment of a substantial sum in full of dower 
rights to quiet litigation by a widow of one of the 
grantors to the church, who had not joined in the original 
deeds. 

This receipt book records, by the way, many suggestive 
incidents. In it appears the autograph of every one 
under salary from the church. The beautiful autograph 
of James W. Alexander is as frequent as the quarter 
days on which his salary was paid. In fact, it is gratify- 
ing to see with what absolute punctuality the church 
payments were made. Almost every receipt closes with 
the words 'This day due," and in fact there is but one 
which contains, underscored, the words "which was due 
yesterday," and this punctiliousness in paying the serv- 
ants of the Lord is emphasized by the fact that the con- 



ififtft auenue pre^fiptetian Cftutcj) 29 

temporaneous minutes of the Board show that at times 
the Treasurer was authorized to borrow at the banks in 
order to make these salary payments. It is believed that 
this punctuality in meeting pastoral obligations has con- 
tinued without a break throughout the history of the 
church. 

Upon the removal to Duane Street, the Corporation 
adopted a new seal "having a representation of a dove, 
bearing an olive branch in its beak, surrounded by the 
words 'Presbyterian Church in Duane Street.' In the 
impression of the seal that remains, the dove appears to 
be a little out of drawing. 

Dr. Mason's first wife was a Miss Markoe, a sister of 
the late Dr. Thomas M. Markoe, whose father, Francis 
Markoe, was an Elder in the Cedar Street Church. The 
mother of Mr. James H. Young, a present member of 
our church, was Miss Anne Mason, a sister of Dr. 
Mason. Mr. Young writes : 

"The infancy and childhood of the four surviving chil- 
dren were spent mostly in the Cedar Street Church. Of 
these, three — myself and two sisters — still survive." 

He also calls attention to the fact that the doctor was 
instrumental in the founding of the New York Uni- 
versity. 

Dr. Mason was forced to resign by reason of a condi- 
tion of health that disabled him from pulpit work, and 
soon after the time of the removal to the Duane Street 
Church he resigned, accepting an employment from the 
Beneficent Congregational Church and Society in Provi- 
dence, R. I. 

The following appreciation of Dr. Mason appears in 
the minutes of September 9, 1835; of a congregational 
meeting attended "by a large number of male members 
and pewholders" : 

"In view of the Solemn Nature of the Connection of 
Pastor & People, which is now about to be dissolved be- 
twixt this Church & Congregation and the Rev'd Cyrus 



30 Centennial Celefitation of tije 

Mason who, for Nine Years, has discharged his arduous 
and important ministerial duties to the general Accept- 
ance of the People, & whose labors have been blessed of 
God in seasons that are past by great harmony amongst 
ourselves and by frequent Additions to this Church, out 
of which very many, from time to time, have gone forth 
to aid in building up & sustaining other Churches, or to 
become Ministers themselves : And whereas, under his 
Ministry this Church and Congregation have continued 
to be prompt & efficient promoters of the great Works 
of benevolence & Christian enterprise, which abound in 
and characterize this Community and Age; therefore,. 
Resolved, that we sincerely regret the existence of any 
circumstances connected with the call from the Congre- 
gational Church in Providence, which in the Opinion of 
the Rev'd Mr. Mason make it his duty to ask of Pres- 
bytery that his pastoral connection with the Church and 
Congregation be now dissolved. 

''Resolved, that in compliance with his request we 
hereby unite in this application & that Certificate in ac- 
cordance be granted by the Chairman & Secretary of this 
Meeting. 

"Resolved, Under the circumstances in which Mr. Ma- 
son is about to leave us, that the Board of Trustees be 
directed to account to him for one year's salary beyond 
the time that his services with us shall be continued ; 

''Resolved, that we affectionately tender to Mr. Mason 
the expression of our heartfelt wishes & prayer to God, 
that his usefulness may be long continued : That he may 
be abundantly prospered in his Public & in his private 
life, and that when that day which comes to all shall come 
to him, that he may render an acceptable account to the 
Almighty Judge and be assigned by our Heavenly Father 
a mansion not made with hands, Eternal in the Heavens ; 

"On motion Resolved, that a copy of the foregoing 
Preamble & Resolutions be attested by the Chairman & 



Jfifti) atjenue pre^fipterian Cfiurcfi 31 

Secretary & furnished to the Rev'd Mr. Mason, The 
Church Session and the Board of Trustees ; 

"The Rev'd Mr. Mason having upon Invitation re- 
turned to the Meeting, the Preamble & Resolutions which 
had been adopted were read to him, whereupon he made 
some brief remarks expressing his entire appreciation of 
the proceedings. Adjourned." 
The Third Pastorate: 

On the 17th of May, 1836, Messrs. Thomas Masters, 
John W. Leavitt and Hugh Auchincloss appeared in 
Presbytery to prosecute the call of the Duane Street 
Church to the Rev. George Potts, of Mississippi. 

It was in the preceding December that the great con- 
flagration occurred in New York City, in which the rec- 
ords of the Session had been consumed by fire. In the 
minutes of December 31, 1835, the action of the Trustees 
is noted in reinsuring certain insurance ''in companies 
which have been rendered insolvent by the recent ap- 
palling conflagration with which our City has been vis- 
ited," and subsequently the minutes show that the Sab- 
bath School rooms belonging to the church were rented 
during the week to Public School No. 10 for the accom- 
modation of 120 girls in that school ''while repairs ne- 
cessitated by the conflagration were being made." 

Dr. Potts was a Philadelphian and came to New York 
from the Presbytery of Mississippi. At his installation 
the Rev. Mr. Krebs preached the sermon from I. Cor., 
9:27. Mr. Crane, the Moderator of Presbytery, pre- 
sided and proposed the constitutional questions. Mr. 
Smith gave the charge to the pastor, and Mr. Spence 
gave the charge to the people. The business of the 
church under his pastorate was uneventful. The min- 
utes show that a Calendar of Stated offerings had been 
established : 

The Bible Society in the month of November. 

Domestic Missions in the month of December. 

Education Cause in the month of January. 



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Sabbath Schools in the month of February. 

Foreign Missions in the month of March. 

Tract Distribution in the month of April. 
But the resolution of Session providing for these offer- 
ings shows an interesting feature of the method then in 
vogue : 

'That the pastor on the first Sabbath of each month 
designated as above, and on such other occasions during 
the same month as may be convenient to himself, shall 
preach upon the general subject without reference to 
particular organisations, and that it shall be the duty of 
the Clerk of Session to notify the Agents of the several 
Associations to whom it may appertain that they solicit 
the subscriptions of the congregation during those 
months in which particular attention has been called to 
each of the several objects." 

The growth of the church giving is alluded to under 
the general discussion of benevolences and in connection 
with the reports to the General Assembly in another 
place. There is an interesting note in the minutes of 
December 5, 1837, where a committee was organized in 
the congregation under one of the Elders to take charge 
of and actively distribute tracts in the city. During the 
pastorate of Dr. Potts we find the first suggestion of an 
assistant pastor, which was brought up on the recom- 
mendation of his physician. The Session resolved that 
"it would be inexpedient to associate an assistant with 
the Pastor," and that in lieu thereof 
"he omit the resumption of the Tuesday evening lectures, 
the Bible class and catechetical instructions and only 
prepare and deliver from the pulpit two discourses on the 
Sabbath until he shall by this means discover whether his 
health may be established." 

Mr. Smedberg recalls that in these days, when his 
family were living near St. John's Park, the sessions of 
the Sunday School were on Saturday, and that some 
diligence was required on the part of older members of 




GEORGE POTTS, D.D. 



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the family to secure the attendance of the children on 
this their holiday. The minutes of the session show 
that the Sunday School was appointed to be held on Sat- 
urday, "in the morning and in the afternoon, one and a 
half hours each." It was for some time the custom for 
the children who were not communicants to gather in 
the gallery on communion Sundays, but being under no 
supervision or control of older people, the Superintend- 
ents of the Sabbath School were required by Session 
*'to cause the younger children of the School to go to 
their homes and not on that particular occasion to be 
brought into the church as usual, so that the pastor and 
the congregation may be spared the serious disturbance 
which heretofore has been experienced from them, even 
with the best care that could be given." 

It was in the month of March, 1844, that the active 
meetings for the organization of the University Place 
Church were being held, as noted in a commemorative 
book of the Fiftieth Anniversary of such church, pub- 
lished in November, 1895. Many of its charter mem- 
bers were originally members of the Duane Street 
Church, and, living up-town, found it inconvenient to at- 
tend the services so far away, and the following letters 
were received by the Session and Trustees of the Duane 
Street Church, which explain themselves : 

"New York, March 12, 1844. 
*'To the Session and Trustees 

of the Duane Street Church. 

"Gentlemen : It is Known to You that a Number of 
the Members of the Duane Street Church and Congre- 
gation in connection with some other persons residing 
in the upper part of the City have had it in contempla- 
tion for a considerable time to erect a Church and estab- 
lish a Congregation under the care of the Presbytery of 
New York for the convenience of themselves and their 
families and of other persons who wish to have such a 
place of worship within their reach. This plan is now 



34 Centennial Celefitation of tfie 

matured and we have come to the conclusion that the 
Rev'd Dr. Potts shall be invited to assume the Pastoral 
Charge. We have given him this invitation and have 
received from him his assent. We deem it due to our 
past relations to You to say that in selecting Dr. Potts 
we are actuated by a belief that there is in the part of 
the City referred to a wide sphere of usefulness which 
he is qualified to fill. When the increase of the popula- 
tion and the fact that many families are continually re- 
moving and the great distance of the Church in Duane 
Street are duly considered we trust that you will not 
consider our step as hasty or unreasonable. 

''We take the liberty of addressing you at this time for 
the purpose of setting at rest certain rumors which have 
been afloat as to the purpose upon our part of disturbing 
and breaking up the Duane Street Congregation. On 
the contrary it is our sincere wish that the Congregation 
may be sustained efficiently. 

'With sentiments of respect, Gentlemen 

SILAS BROWN, 
WILLIAM H. SMITH, 
RUFUS LEAVITT, 
JOHN GIHON, 
WM. M. HALSTEAD, 
JAMES BROWN, 
GEO. GRISWOLD, 
JNO. C. GREEN, 
G. G. HOWLAND, 
EDMUND COFFIN." 

"New York, March 14, 1844. 
"To the Session & Trustees 

of the Duane Street Church. 

"Gentlemen. Within the last few days I have received 

a formal invitation to take the spiritual Charge of an 

enterprise which has been for some time in agitation. I 

allude to the establishment of a Church and Congrega- 



jfiftj) atjenue pre06ptenan Ct)utcJ) 35 

tion to be located in the growing part of the City. This 
enterprise has been as you know long talked of by that 
portion of the Duane Street congregation who are resi- 
dents in that region. 

"After consultation with judicious and disinterested 
friends who advise the step, but especially after having 
sought sincerely the Divine direction, I have come to the 
conclusion with much painful reluctance to announce to 
you my consent to accept of the above invitation. 

"I have sought to be guided by views of duty only, 
and trust you will do me the justice to believe that 
Nothing else would have decided me to take a step one 
effect of which will be to separate me from numerous 
and truly beloved friends, with whom I have lived in 
habits of affectionate intercourse for several years. 

"I have been induced to believe that in the sphere of 
labor upon which I propose to enter, with your permis- 
sion and the permission of my Presbytery, I may be 
more useful to the cause of the Redeemer and of our 
Church, than if I continued in my present position. 

"Be assured, gentlemen, that it is with feelings of un- 
abated regard, and unaffected gratitude, for your kind- 
ness that I now request that You will unite with me in 
asking from the Presbytery a dissolution of the Pastoral 
connection. 

"I will not now pretend to utter all my feelings. Re- 
serving that for another occasion, I beg you, one and all, 
to receive the sincere assurance of my Affectionate de- 
sire for your continued welfare as individuals and as a 
Congregation, and hope that you will continue to me 
your regard which I shall always esteem highly. I am 
gentlemen, 

"Your friend & Pastor, 

"GEORGE POTTS." 

The Presbytery's records show that his resignation 
was acted upon April i6, 1844. 



36 Centennial Celefiration of tfte 

The Fourth Pastorate: 

The fourth pastor, twice installed, of our Church was 
the Rev. James W. Alexander, D.D., one of the princes 
of Presbyterianism, whether as a teacher, or as a preach- 
er, or as a pastor. 

During the interval between Dr. Potts' resignation and 
the call to Dr. Alexander, an event of some interest oc- 
curred. 

In April, 1844, the Session recorded the sale of the 
Presbyterian Church in Wall Street, and its removal to 
Fifth Avenue, where ''the Old First" now stands. The 
vaults were removed at the same time, and the minutes 
record an agreement with the Wall Street Church for 
the removal ''of the remains of our highly venerated 
Pastor, Rev'd Dr. Romeyn, and his wife." These re- 
mains were removed under the personal supervision of 
a special committee after being re-enclosed in a new 
casket, for which it is noted the committee "disbursed the 
sum of $34" ! 

With reference to the pastorate of Dr. Alexander, as 
well as that of Dr. John Hall subsequently, the difficulty 
lies in the wealth of material available. Mr. William 
Alexander placed at the disposal of the committee ma- 
terial in his possession for which our appreciative thanks 
are recorded. 

The minutes of Presbytery record its proceedings in 
regard to his installation on the 3rd of October, 1844. 
His own personal records as Pastor conimence with a 
reference to his installation. 

"Pastoral Records of my connexion with the Duane 
Street Church, New York : 
I was installed by the Presbytery of N York, on 

Thursday, October 3d, 1844, in the evening. The 

Rev. Mr Greenleaf, Md. presided. My honoured 

father preached, from 2 Tim. 2:15. 'Study to shew 

thyself &c.' Dr Phillips offered the opening prayer. 




JAMES W. ALEXANDER, D.D. 



Dr Potts delivered the charge to me : Dr Krebs to 
the people. Dr Spring made the closing prayer. 
The choir began with a voluntary: 'Hark! what 
mean those holy voices.' They sang also Ps. 132. 
CM. V. 4-8. 'Arise, O King of grace, arise' ; Select 
Hymns, 428, We bid thee welcome' ; and 442. 
'Jerusalem, my happy home.' (Worcester's Watts.) 
After which, I went into the pulpit, and blessed the 
people. The congregation, in large numbers, came 
forward, and gave me the right hand. 

Ehenezer. 
Elders, October, 1844. 

Hugh Auchincloss, chosen Aug. i, 1819. 
Thomas Masters, ib. 
Cyrenius Beers, chosen Nov. i, 1829. 
Horace Hinsdale, ib. 
Deacon. 

William Walker, Nov. i, 1829. 
Salary offered, $3,000." 
His pastoral diary presented by his family to the 
church in October, 1904, is in many ways too beautifully 
intimate to quote from in detail. It records particularly 
his dealings with the catechetical class and the substance 
of his Communion talks and some of his visits to those 
who were sick or in trouble. 

When Dr. Alexander came, Mr. Stephen Whitney was 
President of the Board of Trustees. He was reported 
the second richest man in New York, and Mr. Smedberg 
recalls that he used to drive up from his house on the 
Battery to the Duane Street Church. 

The General Assembly, which then had large powers 
over the Princeton Seminary, in June, 1849, sent Com- 
missioners Dr. Williams W. Phillips and Nicholas Mur- 
ray to announce to him that he had been elected by the 
Assembly to be Professor of Ecclesiastical History and 
Church Government in Princeton Seminary. 



38 Centennial Celefiration of tfte 

The forty years' ''Familiar Letters" of Dr. Alexander 
edited by John Hall, D.D., of Trenton, published by 
Scribner in 1870, present a very full picture of his life. 
He records in a letter written about this time that as to 
the comparative importance of the two posts, namely, 
that of Professor in the Seminary and that of Pastor, 

"I have never had any question that (to on€ com- 
petent) the teaching place was equal in importance to 
any ten of the other." 

He also records: 

"I have seen clearly that the Duane Street Church 
could live only by moving up-town and thither I wished 
not to move. I have seen as clearly that my powers 
were taxed to a tension which must soon be fatal, while 
in the steadier routine of teaching I might last a season." 

But he was reluctant — very. He writes : 

*To know that I might remain here would be a joy 
unspeakable. No dreams of mine respecting the social 
happiness of the pastoral relation have failed to be real- 
ized. In this I compare it to marriage." 

The following tablet may be seen in the vestibule of 
our present church: 

In Memory of 
James Waddel Alexander, D.D. 

For 13 years 

The Beloved and Revered pastor 

of this Church 

Whose Singular Natural gifts 

Ripened by generous Culture, 

Were successfully given 

To his sacred work 

And who by his Fervent piety, 

Pure life, 

Tender Affections, large Benevolence, 

And unsparing labor, 

So endeared himself to his people 



Jfiftj) atienue pre$6pterian Cfturcl) 39 

That they Mourn, 
As for a dear brother and beloved friend. 
He was born March 13th, 1804 
He died July 31st, 1859 
Declaring 
As the Sum of His faith and hope 
"I know whom I have believed, 
And am persuaded that he is 
Able to keep that which I 
Have committed to him, 

Against that day." 

And there is a further tablet in the Chapel of the 
Theological Seminary of Princeton, unveiled on the 29th 
of April, 1859, the addresses at which time were pub- 
lished in book form. The address relating to Dr. James 
W. Alexander was by Theodore L. Cuyler, D.D. Some 
of his pithy sentences may be reproduced. 

"His name represents three generations of devout 
pulpit eloquence, for the blood of the blind preacher of 
Virginia mingled with the blood of the patriarch of this 
Seminary in the veins of James Waddel Alexander." 

He "lived on earth fifty-five years, every one of them 
busy to the brim." 

He alludes to his own student life under him in Prince- 
ton College when he was Professor of Latin and Eng- 
lish Literature. He comments on his habits of scrupu- 
lous personal neatness, and to his preaching the Gospel 
of Jesus gratuitously while a Professor "down in 
Witherspoon Street Negro Chapel to the children of 
God carved in ehony." 

Dr. Cuyler says that his five years in the Seminary 
were "the most uneventful episode of his noble life." 
He "hungered to get back to the pulpit which was his 
throne, and to his empire, the people's hearts." 

"The pulpit of New York has had more thrilling 
orators and more brilliant pyrotechnists, but it never held 



40 Centennial Celefiration of tfte 

a more symmetric, scholarly and satisfying minister of 
Jesus Christ than James W. Alexander. The word to 
describe him is satisfying. He satisfied the intellect, he 
satisfied the purest taste, he satisfied the conscience, he 
fed the innermost soul of the devout believer, and it is 
no ordinary achievement to have equally satisfied the 
culture of Fifth Avenue and the company of humble 
negroes who clung to him in the Witherspoon Street 
Chapel." 

Dr. Alexander was also a prolific writer. Dr. Cuyler 
says he 

"put more thoughts into type than any man who has ever 
lived in Princeton." 

He wrote 35 Sunday School books for children, and 
left several volumes of discourses. His friend says of 
him that while he sometimes suffered from fits of phys- 
ical depression, yet 

"when the sunshine of cheerfulness burst forth, he was 
as sweet as. summer." 

He speaks of his sportive humor and flow of merri- 
ment, and relates the following personal incident: 

"As he was then studying hymnology, I showed him a 
queer old Methodist Camp Meeting Hymn Book, which 
contained this remarkable couplet: 

'When I was blind and could not see 
The Calvinists deceived me.' 

Dr. Alexander laughed until the tears ran down his face, 
and he begged the loan of the book, which proved to be 
permanent." 

The sermons preached before the congregation at the 
funeral services on October 9, 1859, by Charles Hodge, 
D.D., and John Hall, D.D., of Trenton, were published 
by Anson D. F. Randolph. 

These men, so well qualified to judge of his pulpit 
powers, place a very high estimate upon his gifts. From 
their two addresses we read : 



jFiftJ) atoenue Pre0figtetian Cfiurcj) 41 

"No minister in our church was a more accomplished 
scholar. He was familiar with Greek, Latin, French, 
German, Italian and Spanish, not merely as a philologist 
but for the treasures of knowledge and taste which they 
contained," 

to which Dr. Hodge attributed the abundance of his lit- 
erary allusions, his curious felicity of expression and the 
variety of his imagery. "He was an erudite theologian. 
No one ever heard of his saying or doing an unseemly 
or unkind thing. . . . The great charm of his preach- 
ing, that to which more than to anything else his effi- 
ciency is to be referred, was his power over the religious 
affections." 

Dr. Alexander "was a man of sorrows, frequent family 
bereavements; repeated attacks of illness, some of them 
attended by great bodily agony, a shattered nervous con- 
stitution, caused him a degree of suffering protracted 
through many years." 

Dr. Cuyler and Dr. John Hall both refer to the "Let- 
ters to Workingmen," written under the pseudonym of" 
"Charles Quill," which "have the simplicity and pith of 
Benjamin Franklin." It commended honest labor, as- 
serted the rights of mechanics but unveiled the deformity 
of the "leveling system." 

Dr. Alexander was during his pastorate much exer- 
cised over the system of pew tenure. He writes from 
Princeton in 1849: 

"My poor congregation in New York is in a bad way. 
The two or three old Hunkers — who can't see that the 
earth has gone round any since Dr. Romeyn died— 
would never believe (what is undeniable) that the church 
cannot be maintained where it is, except as a free church. 
This I perceived two years ago and discovered six 
months ago that five-sixths of the people were ready to 
move, but the plan was quashed by the Conservatives, 
and I fear they will be left alone unless they instant er 
remove. The house is almost embedded in places of 



42 Centennial Celebration of tfte 

disreputable resort. Its real supporters live far above it. 
I say these things to them freely now, because they can- 
not charge me with any worldly lust of a better locale, 
which they constructively did while I was with them. I 
said to Mr. Auchincloss that two years hence there can- 
not by possibility be a Presbyterian Church at that cor- 
ner. Lower New York is in no proper sense other than 
as a warehouse compared with a dwelling/' 

When his congregation became converted to this 
theory of his as to removal and recalled him in 185 1, 
they had circulated a subscription list conditioned upon 
his return, on which $38,000 was pledged and they had 
an offer of $32,000 for the Duane Street premises. He 
was strongly moved by the recall to pastoral work, and 
he comments on the success he had while a pastor in 
drawing young men around him, whereas in the Semi- 
nary "all my efforts have failed with the students pri- 
vately and socially." 

He comments in one letter on the giving out of 
Watts' Catechism, since when, he says, "we have had no 
syllabus of Bible history to give children and young 
people. Such a book, going over the whole narrative, 
without much remark, would sell by thousands." 

His letters during the last years of his Hfe give a 
delightful picture of New York. At that day the par- 
sonage was 22 West Nineteenth Street. He says he 
finds "a good smart walk, from here to Trinity Church, 
quite tonical." He refers to dropping into old Trinity, 
"Dr. Hodges on the organ and their choir of boys I 
found transcendent, the Benedicite was chanted so as to 
meet every demand of my feelings." 

He notes, as any pastor to-day might equally record: 

"My mind works incessantly on such themes as these : 
The abounding misery, the unreached masses ; the waste 
of church energy on the rich, its small operation on the 
poor ; emigrant wretchedness ; our boy population ; our 
topeless prostitutes; our 4,000 grog shops; the absence 




FIFTH AVE. AND NINETEENTH ST. CHURCH 

ERECTED 1852 



jFiftI) atienue Pre06pterian Cfeurci) 43 

of the poor from Presbyterian Churches; the farce of 
our church alms; confinement of our church efforts to 
pew-holders; the do-nothing life of our Christian pro- 
fessors in regard to the masses; our copying the Priest 
and Levite in the parable; our need of a Christian Lord 
Bacon to produce a 'Novum Organum' of philan- 
thropy; our dread of innovation, our luxury and pride. 
Since I sav^ the drinking customs of Britain I am almost 
a teetotaler and half disposed to go for a Maine law 
against vendors of drink." 

While he was getting settled he notes: 

"Furnace, gas and Croton pipes have almost literally 
employed almost every day since our flitting, pipes, fur- 
naces, gas meter ditto. My rent is $900, in a very nar- 
row, tawdry, shelly, ambitious, half-done house, the 
neighborhood, however, is as quiet as a country village." 

Christmas Day, 1851, he says: 

"Saw me in nine churches : St. Francis Xavier's, St. 
Patrick's Cathedral, St. Joseph's, St. Vincent de Paul, 
St. Somebody's (German), Bellows', Grace, Calvar}^ and 
Muhlenberg's Little Gothic Free Seat Chapel." 

Suggestive of the present work among the foreigners 
of New York City is another note of Dr. Alexander's. 

"My young men are about to employ a man who 
speaks the Irish and has labored 20 years in Connaught, 
to look up the strangers scattered abroad in this city. 
My late church is occupied by several hundred emigrant 
families." 

In 1852 he records an interdenominational meeting for 
prayer at St. George's Episcopal Church, at which Dr. 
Spring made an address and Dr. Potts offered prayer. 
He records going to hear Ralph Waldo Emerson preach 
a "disjointed series of good things; audience not large, 
apparently New England residents, ladies, uppish clerks, 
&c." 

On December 24, 1852, he records an exciting week 
in regard to the new church. The debt was canceled. 



44 Centennial Cele&ratian of tfte 

the sale of pews equaling the entire cost of ground and 
buildings. 

''All the very high priced pews are taken; about 95 
remain unsold. It is my wish that the sales should stop 
and that the remaining pews should be rented at low 
rates." 

At the same time he notes that Peter Cooper was then 
building the Institute just below the new Bible House, 
which is just celebrating its semicentennial. A little 
later he notes that the "j"] pews that remained unsold 
finally were all rented except seven below and three in 
the gallery. 

"I wish I could turn out about twenty pews of rich 
folks and fill them with poor. ... I never was 
stronger in my opinion that all church sittings ought to 
be free, yet we can't reach this without endowment. 

"Even in the popish churches in Paris I calculated 
that at one sou a chair, the common price, people of reg- 
ular attendance would pay $2 a year, which is just the 
price of a cheap sitting in our church." 

There were many interesting questions agitating the 
church public in those days. 

"The question of riding in street cars on Sundays is 
agitating our community. I have not been able to de- 
cide it." 

And he records his perplexities on the questions of 
preaching extreme Sabbatarianism. He says : 

"My good father used to say, 'be very strict yourself, 
be very lenient in judging your neighbor.' " 

He says that he has always taken milk (on Sunday) 
without scruple, "which is an offense to hundreds of good 
people among us." "Some men have qualms about Sun- 
day gas, but on inquiry they found that the labor which 
produced it fell on Thursday or Friday." He also notes 
the "Presbyterian Liturgies" published in 1855 and his 
own preference for the Church of England's prayers. 



JFiftI) atjenue pte^fipterian Ct)urc{) 45 

He comments on the removal of the Brick Church, 
whose supporters he says have long been up-town: 

"Free churches must be established for the class re- 
maining below." 

In another place, after a walk up Avenue A through 
the German quarters, he states: 

''I cannot get any other churches to agree with me in 
a favorite scheme for a great and inviting building, 
erected far down-town with a striking preacher, seats 
free and no treasurer required ;" 

but he says "our folks are clearly ripe for a mission 
church," but he says "I do not mean it shall be down- 
town." (It was shortly after opened in Twentieth 
Street, near Seventh Avenue), and he comments on the 
institutional work of Dr. Muhlenberg's Church. 

His passion for music appears throughout his letters. 
In a letter of November, 1853, he says : 

"We are in an odd state as to music. Lowell Mason 
is our leader, but since his return from Europe he is so 
bent on severe, plain tunes and congregational singing, 
that while I am tickled immensely, the people are disap- 
pointed;" but he says "his success in making the people 
sing has been marvelous," and he adds that "there is no 
church in the city where so many join in the singing." 

Mr. Mason himself has recorded that he hardly ever 
met the Doctor that this was not the leading subject of 
conversation, and that the Doctor once told him, when 
it was suggested that there might be danger of a return 
to choir singing, that he would not remain pastor of a 
church where the singing was exclusively in the hands of 
a choir. 

In 1854 the congregation voted to increase his salary 
to $5,000, which he refused positively. His refusal was 
obviated by provisions subsequently made for the benefit 
of his family at his death. 

In 1858 he records the achievement of his "Opera 
House Service." The Academy of Music had been se- 



46 Centennial Celebration of tfte 

cured and although it was a rainy night there were three 
thousand in attendance. He says : 

"Numbers sat in the lobbies and saloons, of the very 
class who are never seen in church, the collection cov- 
ered the whole expense with 15 per cent, over." 

Reference has been repeatedly made to the pew sys- 
tem of the church and to the desire that increased ac- 
commodation might be provided for those unable to 
meet the cost and annual charges of pew ownership. 

Dr. Alexander's desire, oft expressed, may have had 
something to do with the generous gift of Mr. John 
Sinclair at the time of the removal to the present site, 
by which he established a fund in the hands of the 
Trustees for the purpose of making available at reason- 
able rentals such pews as might revert to the church for 
whatever reason from the individual owners. 

In the record of members at the end of this book it 
will be of interest to read the names of members subse- 
quently active in this or other churches who came into 
our communion during the various pastorates. Under 
Dr. Alexander's leadership we find admitted by profes- 
sion of faith such persons as William Irwin, William 
Paton, Fanny C. Bunker (Mrs. John Sinclair), whose 
grandmother, Mrs. Henry Coit, was one of the early 
members, and had much to do with the King Street Mis- 
sion in its beginnings ; Robert P. Haines, Emily Auchin- 
closs Maxwell, Henry B. Auchincloss, James Fraser, 
Cornelius R. Agnew, W^m. H. Beers and his wife, A. 
Gifford Agnew, Adolphus Smedberg and his wife, James 
R. Jesup, Charles Lanier, James W. Alexander, Jr., 
Theodore Gilman, James H. Young, Thomas Cochran; 
and by letter, to name but a few, William Sloane, Wm. 
A. Wheelock, Chas. Scribner and his wife, Wm. Libbey, 
Josiah S. Leverett, Susan M. Alexander, Wilson Phra- 
ner, William Walker, Lowell Mason, Robert L. Stuart 
and his wife, Henry Day, Henry G. Marquand, John 
Paton, Henry M. Alexander, Robert L. Maitland, Alex- 



jFiftJ) auenue pte06gterian Cfeurclb 47 

ander Van Renssalaer and his wife, Hooper C. Van 
Vorst — names suggestive of service, faithful, zealous and 
in some cases still continued. 

Mr. Adolphus Smedberg, still a member of the 
church, has many delightful reminiscences of the church 
life during Dr. Alexander's pastorate. Mr. Smedberg's 
grandmother was Mrs. Renwick, who was Jean Jeffrey, 
one of the heroines often named in Robert Burns' poems. 
She was daughter and granddaughter of Scotch Pres- 
byterian ministers. One of her daughters married Ad- 
miral Charles Wilkes, who was the captor of Mason and 
Slidell and commander of the United States Exploring 
Expedition, whose son also married Mr. Smedberg's 
sister. Mrs. Renwick's son, James, was a distinguished 
professor of Columbia College, and was a member of 
the committee to fix boundaries under the Ashburton 
Treaty. Mr. Smedberg recalls William Forrest, his old 
Preceptor, who in his school probably educated more 
business men in New York than any other one man, 
and his son, who was also a member of the church, also 
named William, as characterized irreverently by the 
boys, because of the color of his hair, as Billy Rufus, 
while his father was called Billy the Conqueror. In 
those days, the New Year's Day's reception was still a 
prominent feature of New York's social life, and Dr. 
Alexander always received on that day, at which time 
Old Peter, the Church Sexton, and the immediate prede- 
cessor of Mr. Culyer, our Sexton for over fifty years, 
used to act as butler at the receptions at his house on 
those days. Old Peter also seems to have acted as 
beadle at the church services and to have kept a vigilant 
eye upon the young people in the galleries. To this 
New Year Day function Mr. Culyer himself succeeded, 
and was later relieved by Mr. Burton, his assistant. 



48 Centennial Celefiration of tfte 

The Fifth Pastorate: 

The pastorate of Dr. Alexander had been a fruitful one. 
The church was strong, prosperous, and increased in its 
benevolences. It was difficult to find a successor for him 
and a period of nearly eighteen months elapsed between 
the death of Dr, Alexander and the installation of the 
fifth Pastor. 

Dr. Nathan L. Rice, of the Presbytery of Chicago, 
was duly called and installed April 26, 1861. Dr. Gard- 
ner Spring preached the sermon and Dr. Potts, the for- 
mer pastor of the church, was appointed to give the 
charge to the church, but being detained, the Rev. Mr. 
Rankin took his place. Dr. Rice was a Kentuckian. 
He worked on a farm until he was sixteen, and earned 
money by teaching school to go to Center College. He 
studied theology under Dr. Gideon Blackburn, and then 
went to Princeton for two years. He took part in a 
great public debate in Kentucky on the subject of Baf>- 
tism, which excited the whole Western country at that 
time, which debate was published and widely circulated. 
In 1855 he had become so prominent in the church that 
he was elected Moderator of the General Assembly meet- 
ing at Nashville. As a Southerner preaching in a New 
York pulpit during the Civil War, he occupied a very 
delicate position. 

In the life of Dr. John Hall, by his son, there is an 
incidental comment on the failing health of Dr. Rice and 
on his supposed Southern sympathies as preventing his 
undoubted worth and ability being fully recognized^ 
But "on the whole, by a discreet avoidance of all po- 
litical topics, he maintained the affection and esteem of 
his people," and in the only sketch of his life to which 
we have had access, we read Dr. Rice ''was truly a great 
man. He impressed all who heard him preach, the most 
cultured and the most cultivated, with the sense of his 
power. He was great in intellect, in labor, in goodness. 
His most characteristic mental feature was the logical 




NATHAN L. RICE, D. D. 



Jfiftt) atsenue pte0&ptecian Cfturcj) 49 

faculty; closely connected with this was his well-nigh 
unrivaled power of analysis. He knew men and how to 
reach their hearts. He was large-hearted, generous, 
fervent." 

It must be noted that there had been a very strong 
party in the church in favor of calling Dr. Shedd, of 
Andover. The call to Dr. Shedd, however, was not 
unanimous, and was declined by him. 

A call had also been sent to the Rev. Dr. B. M. 
Palmer, of New Orleans, who also had decHned. 

There were few matters of interest to note during Dr. 
Rice's pastorate. There was a selection of a parsonage ; 
the creation of a "permanent fund in the hands of the 
Trustees"; the provision of an additional pew to ac- 
commodate the Pastor's family. There was some little 
friction in regard to the church music; the faithful sup- 
port of the Seventh Avenue Mission ; an increase of the 
assessment on the pews in order to meet the increasing 
expenses of administration; the addition to the Pastor's 
salary of his house rent ; the organization of the Seventh 
Avenue Mission into a separate church; the purchase of 
the Alexander Mission property on King Street in order 
to its permanent location. 

At this time, namely, the termination of Dr. Rice's 
pastorate, which may be said to end the first half of the 
church's history, the balance sheet of the Trustees 
showed the annual receipt and disbursement of less than 
$20,000, including all charges. 

Before passing to the pastorate of John Hall, which 
marked a great step forward in the development of the 
church, it may be noted in summary of this first period 
that the church had been a power in respect of its mem- 
bership, of its pulpit message, and of its benevolence 
locally and through the church bounds. The founda- 
tions laid by Dr. Romeyn and his faithful elders had 
stood firm. 



50 Centennial Celelitation of tfte 

Its pastors were public men, initiating or forwarding 
measures of civic and social reform. Its members were 
men of influence in aflfairs, and loyal to their denomina- 
tion. The only discord or seeming rift within the lute 
is in occasional connection with the subject of church 
music — Watts' Psalms or Hymns, chanting vs. harmony. 
Precentor, female chorister, alto assistant, male quartets, 
violoncello, organ, whether trustees or session should 
control selection of the choir, are some of the heads. 
But to each topic was given earnest, prayerful considera- 
tion in order to the better service of God's house. Dr. 
Alexander on one occasion pointed out the provision 
in the Directory of Worship ''where the sermon is com- 
pared with the more important duties of prayer and 
praise" ! This illuminates the matter, and shows how 
important it was rightly deemed to be. 

It is a pleasure to record that the general participa- 
tion by the congregation in public praise is still a feature 
of our worship, and universally commented upon by 
those who visit its services. 

Dr. Rice's resignation was acted on by the Presbytery 
April 1 6, 1867, and the pulpit was declared vacant by 
Samuel D. Alexander, D.D. 

During Dr. Rice's brief pastorate the church roll re- 
ceived substantial reinforcement. Among those received 
on confession during the war period we find recorded 
Mrs. Mary C. Auchincloss, Charles B. Alexander, Mary 
J. Sloane, Alexander Maitland, Edgar S. Auchincloss, 
Ewen Mclntyre, Lockwood De Forest, William H. 
Sturges; and there were attracted from sister churches 
such members as James Paton, William C. Noyes, Har- 
vey Fisk, John Sinclair and John A. Stewart. 
The Sixth Pastorate: 

With the installation of John Hall, the church entered 
upon a new era of development, prosperity and influence. 
Removing soon after his coming and for causes similar 
to those that had compelled its prior migrations "up- 




THE PRESENT CHURCH 

AT FIFTH AVENUE AND FIFTY-FIFTH STREET 

ERECTED 1875 



jFiftft atienue pre06ptetian Cfturci) 51 

town," it entered upon the present building in 1875, 
which became known far and wide, not so much as the 
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, to which its name 
was legally changed, as "Dr. Hall's Church." His Hfe 
is so recent and has been so sympathetically recorded by 
his son, Thomas C. Hall, D.D., of Union Theological 
Seminary, that the following concise statement may be 
deemed all that is appropriate in the circumstances. He 
was born on the 31st day of July, 1829, in County 
Armagh in the north of Ireland, and died September 17, 
1898. He was of Scotch-Irish antecedents, "and the en- 
vironment in which he grew up was stoutly Protestant 
and Presbyterian." From the village school he went to 
a small classical school, thence to Belfast, where he went 
on recommendation of the Presbytery to prepare for the 
ministry. His progress was steady and the personal 
piety resulting from family influences was reinforced 
by the active influences of the Evangelical movement 
then recently reaching its climax and particularly domi- 
nant in the work of the College of Belfast. At the age 
of sixteen he entered the theological college, and upon 
graduating he went into the home mission work in the 
West of Ireland, after an examination before the Pres- 
bytery, the only adverse comment having been upon his 
shyness while preaching his trial sermon. His biog- 
rapher records the form of the criticism of one of the 
fathers and brethren who told the young preacher "He 
would get more help looking into the eyes of those he 
was speaking to than by trying to bore a hole in the 
roof with his eye." In a couple of years, while home on 
a vacation, he supplied the pulpit at his birthplace, with 
the result that a unanimous call was extended to him 
to become Pastor. A few months later he married Mrs. 
Irwin, the widow of John Irwin, Esq., who for so many 
years shared as helpmate and sympathetic co-worker in 
his wonderful pastoral life. The character of his parish 
doubtless developed the simplicity of the style which al- 



52 Centennial Celebration of tfte 

ways characterized his preaching; direct, forcible, prac- 
tical. In substance, edifying and stimulating to thought- 
ful and highly educated minds, yet simple and lucid 
enough in form for the meanest understanding. With- 
out dwelling on the details of his life in Ireland, he was 
selected as one of the delegates from the church in Ire- 
land to the General Assembly of the Northern Presby- 
terian Church in the United States. This delegation 
was formally accredited to the Old and New School 
Assemblies, to the Synod of the Reformed Church and 
to the Synod of the Covenanters. He was in the country 
for eight weeks, during which time he spoke daily and 
in nearly all the Eastern and many of the Western cities. 
The impression made by the young Irishman was pro- 
found; such a journal as Harper's Weekly noted: "His 
eloquent speech on the occasion of his reception will 
never be forgotten by any who heard it." On his return 
to the East he preached in the Fifth Avenue Church, 
with the result that he was approached tentatively by 
the Session on the subject of filling their vacant pulpit, 
and upon his return to Ireland he received a cable ap- 
prising him of the unanimous call extended to him to 
accept the pastorate of that church, which call he ac- 
cepted. In Ireland he was an outspoken Liberal. He 
stood for disestablishment; was working for secular and 
undenominational education. It is curious to note in 
his biography by his son apropos of our church music 
that while he had **no objection to either organ or hymns 
in the church," that these were "burning questions" in 
the Church in Ireland at that time. It is clear that it 
was a wrench for him to come to this country, but once 
his decision had been made he threw himself into the 
work in a new land with the same zeal and untiring 
energy that had characterized his Irish ministry, with 
the result that he soon took that position of influence 
in the community and in the American Presbyterian 
Church which nearly every Pastor of our church has 




JOHN HALL, D.D., LLD. 

IN 1878 



jFiftf) atjenue pre06ptetfan Cfturcft 53 

held. The estimate of his services as Pastor on the 
other side is printed in full in his life by his son. We 
quote one or two of the sentences merely to show how 
unchanged in character he remained throughout his life. 

"The pulpit was the throne of his power." "He 
preached as he talked, with a fine conversational freedom 
and naturalness." "He was the Goldsmith and Franklin 
in one of the Irish pulpit." "He always exhibited in 
debate a high-bred Christian courtesy." "He has been 
conspicuous in the ranks of his brethren not merely for 
great eloquence and great force in character, but of a 
man of unblemished integrity, of tried courage and 
benevolent, unaffected piety — a man whose views were 
always tolerant and liberal, his convictions deep and 
hearty, with few antipathies and many sympathies." 

The records of the Presbytery of New York, follow- 
ing the dissolution of the pastoral relation of Dr. Rice 
at the April meeting in 1867, show that the credentials 
of the Rev. John Hall, D.D., from the Presbytery of 
Dublin, Ireland, were presented on October 28, 1867. 
The call from the church at Fifth Avenue and Nine- 
teenth Street was forthwith put into his hands, and, 
being accepted by him, it was arranged to install him^ 
on the 3rd of November; Dr. William M. Paxton to 
preach the sermon, Dr. John Thomson to deliver the 
charge to the Pastor, and Dr. Samuel D. Alexander to 
deliver the charge to the people. 

The next entry by Presbytery was his death, thirty- 
one years later, after a pastorate in which the church 
had passed through one of the most interesting and 
fruitful periods of its existence. The differences be- 
tween the Old and New Schools are little known to the 
church members of to-day. When the church moved to 
Nineteenth Street, under Dr. Alexander, there were men 
of both schools in the congregation. Dr. Hall was not 
identified with either side in the dispute, but was an 
earnest advocate of that reunion which took place in 



54 Centennial Celebration of tfte 

1869. His preaching soon crowded the building at 
Nineteenth Street so that camp chairs were placed down 
every aisle. Henry Ward Beecher called him "the young 
Irishman of the golden tongue." More perhaps than any 
other pastor in New York City he systematized the work 
of pastoral visitation. Every home, even every office, of 
members of his congregation saw and knew his face. It 
has been stated that he had no time for social engage- 
ments, but he always had time for his pastoral work. 
Even when in failing physical health, he would overtax 
his strength by climbing the stairs of some building high 
up in which some needy member of his flock lay in need 
of his ministrations. He had around him a wonderful set 
of officers, elders, deacons and trustees. Take at random 
one of the year books published during his pastorate, 
that of 1882, and the following list of names is an in- 
spiration : 

ELDERS. 

William Walker Cornelius R. Agnew 

James M. Halstead John Sinclair 

Henry G. DeForest John Paton 

Henry Day Malcolm Graham 

Jacob D. Vermilye John H. Mortimer 

William L. Skidmore William Campbell 

James Fraser Hooper C Van Vorst 
Robert Bliss 

DEACONS. 

Frederick W. Whittemore Edgar S. Auchincloss 

Alexander Maitland Ewen McIntyre 

John Sloane 

BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 

Robert L. Stuart, President Charles Lanier 

John H. Mortimer, Treasurer Henry A. Hurlbut 

Robert Bliss, Stated Clerk Birdseye Blakeman 

Robert L. Stuart John A. Livingston 

Parker Handy John S. Kennedy 

William D. Sloane Jacob Campbell 



jFKtft atoenue pre^fipterfan C|)urc|) 55 

It was soon manifest that the building at Nineteenth 
Street was inadequate, and Mr. Robert Bonner and Mr. 
Robert L. Stuart were perhaps the prime movers in the 
movement which was intended to secure a new building, 
which "in extent and character should be worthy of 
Presbyterianism in the Metropolitan City of the East." 
The financial problem undertaken and solved far exceed- 
ed in magnitude any of the previous operations of the 
church as a corporation. Prior to entering the new 
church, there was subscribed $328,996.09; $520,000 was 
secured on the sale of 191 pews, and by the energy of 
the wheel-horses of the church, it was not long before 
the entire debt was canceled, and the property held free 
and clear. There is a minute in the records of the 
Board of Trustees commenting upon the gifts of Mr. 
Robert Bonner toward the erection of the church, as 
being the largest then known gifts for church extension 
in the history of the American Church. In a personal 
note of 1877, printed in the life of Dr. Hall, the total 
of Mr. Bonner's gifts is placed at $131,000. The old 
church, by the generosity of certain of the Trustees and 
Col. Elliott F. Shepard, then a member of the Central 
Church, was removed and re-erected on West Fifty- 
seventh Street, where it still stands with but slight altera- 
tion of appearance. Mr. Wm. Rutherford Mead, of 
McKim Mead & White, recalls that this was his own 
first important architectural work. 

The outside activities of Dr. Hall are still matters of 
common knowledge. His services to the church at large, 
as president of the Board of Home Missions, need no re- 
hearsal. To the City of New York his services as Chan- 
cellor of the New York University have been adequately 
commemorated. In the Union Seminary before the pe- 
riod of misunderstanding with the General Assembly he 
served faithfully as director. He also gave to his duties 
as Director of Princeton Seminary and as Trustee of 
Princeton College painstaking attention, and had much to 



56 Centennial Celebration of tfte 

do with securing James McCosh for the Presidency of 
that institution. In the Presbytery of New York he was 
faithful in attendance, always dignified in his forensic du- 
ties, and while apt to lose advantage in debate by over- 
looking the technicalities of parliamentary law it in- 
creased the affection of his brethren that this was always 
due to his keeping his mind and attention primarily 
fastened on what to him was the chief object of Presby- 
terial importance, namely, the advancement of the spirit- 
ual interest of the churches in the city. 

The Warszawiak case, with its numerous appeals, re- 
sulted, as an ecclesiastical cause celehre, in a situation 
where it would have puzzled Solomon himself to decide 
whether the last deliverance of the Assembly restored 
this excommunicated Hebrew to any of his privileges in 
the church. 

It was toward the end of Dr. Hall's pastorate that this 
celebrated case arose. In his son's biography of Dr. 
Hall there are a number of little side-lights thrown on 
the doctor's interest in the conversion of the Jews to 
Christianity, which was a darling wish of his mother, 
and the fulfillment of which she seemed to have thought 
rendered more likely by his acceptance of a call to the 
United States. So for many years the doctor had been 
interested in the work of the city missions for the Jews. 
At the time this case arose Warszawiak had applied to 
the New York Presbytery to be taken under its care as 
a candidate for the Gospel ministry. He was a man of 
brilliant parts and apparently of persuasive eloquence, 
and preached to crowded houses of Hebrews, and it was 
supposed that he was producing great results in the con- 
version of those who attended his services. The charge 
against him before the Session of the Fifth Avenue 
Church was practically that of hypocrisy, in that while 
seeking to be taken under the care of Presbytery as a 
candidate for the Gospel Ministry he was leading an 
immoral and un-Christian life. 



ififtj) auenue pre06ptetian Cfiurcli 57 

Dr. Hall's faith in the young man was of that loyal 
kind that hostile evidence fails to shake, and it is prob- 
ably true that he never believed in the justice of his con- 
viction by the Session, which was affirmed by the Pres- 
bytery, while the Synod and Assembly, after first order- 
ing a new trial, finally decided the matter had lasted long 
enough and declared it at an end. 

Dr. Hall's health failed during the last few years of 
his Hfe. He was troubled with some heart weakness. 
But he would not give in, nor diminish his pastoral 
activity. It was proposed to secure an assistant for him ; 
but the proposition seems to have been more of a shock 
to him than an occasion of relief, for it led to his offer- 
ing his resignation, in which, however, his people, upon 
whose affections he had so strong a hold, refused to 
acquiesce. 

Still, while he withdrew the resignation, he was com- 
pelled to relax his efforts, and to take what was hoped 
would be but a vacation for recuperation. 

The communion service of May, 1898, was the last 
at which he was able to preside. He went abroad in 
June, longing to revisit his birthplace and the sisters 
who still survived. This desire was gratified only so 
far as his reaching Ireland was concerned. He was 
unable to get as far as Ballygorman, and died at Craw- 
fordsbum Road on the 17th day of September, 1898. 
There were simple funeral services in Bangor. The fol- 
lowing pages from his son's biography seem appropriate 
for quotation: 

"The funeral services in New York were on the morn- 
ing of October the 4th, 1898, in the Fifth Avenue Pres- 
byterian Church, into which so much of my father's life 
had been built. Dr. John Mcintosh of Philadelphia, Dr. 
Wm. M. Paxton of Princeton and the moderator of 
the General Assembly of that year, the Rev. Dr. Rad- 
cliffe took charge of the services, and paid tributes to 
.the worth and services of him whom God had taken. On 



58 Centennial Celebration of tj^e 

Wednesday morning the remains were taken to Wood- 
lawn and laid to rest beside the beloved nephew, the 
Rev. John Magowan, and near his stepson, Major John 
Irwin. The final arrangements have not yet been made, 
and only a simple head-stone, with a reference to Daniel 
12 :3, marks the place where lies the sacred dust. 

"Great was the outburst of real sorrow when the news 
spread that the great preacher and faithful pastor was 
to be seen and heard no more on earth. In London, 
Edinburgh, Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow, as well as all the 
principal cities of the United States, memorial sermons 
were preached, and memorial services were held. 

"Great numbers of ecclesiastical bodies on both sides 
of the water, Methodists, Baptists, Congregational, 
Episcopalian and others, joined in tributes of esteem and 
sorrow. Nearly all the English written press on both 
sides of the Atlantic and many foreign journals con- 
tained estimates of the power and value of the life that 
had passed away. The London Times paid a warm trib- 
ute to the influence of the life that was closed ; and what 
marked nearly all these estimates was the prominence 
given to the directness and simplicity of the life and 
work. It was agreed that the elements that went to 
make up my father's character were not unduly com- 
plex, yet poise, industry, strength of conviction and mas- 
terly control of all those elements gave extraordinary 
force to the life." 

The following tablet was erected to his memory by his 
congregation : 

Rev. John Hall, D.D., LL.D. 

Bom County Armagh, Ireland, 

July 31, 1829. 

Died County Down, Ireland, 

September 17, 1898. 

For Forty-nine Years 

A Presbyterian Minister. 

Pastor of this Church 



jFiftfi atoenue pte$6ptetian Cfturcft 59 

From November 3, 1867, to September 17, 1898. 

"There remaineth therefore a rest 

to the people of God." 

The list of accessions during his pastorate is very- 
large, and too many would have to be the citations to 
warrant any separate enumeration. Our own and sev- 
-eral of our sister churches still enjoy the services of 
men and women converted by the Gospel preaching of 
John Hall or drawn into activity here from churches all 
over the land. Few Presbyterian pastorates have ex- 
ceeded his in accumulating "parish power" and in lib- 
erating it in the channels of church work or of church 
giving. 

Some of the events of parish interest during Dr. HaU's 
pastorate are briefly as follows: 

In October, 1877, there was a resolution for the sys- 
tematic visitation of the parish by the Elders, which was 
particularly commended by the Presbytery in reviewing 
the minutes of the church. 

In 1878 a committee was appointed which ultimately 
acquired St. George's Chapel for the Fourteenth Street 
Mission. 

In January, 1879, attention was called to the long 
service of William Walker, who had joined the church 
in 1829 and had been an Elder since 1853. At his re- 
quest a separate Treasurer of Session was appointed, 
namely, John Sloane, who was succeeded later by James 
R. Jesup, and he in turn by our present Treasurer, H. 
Edwards Rowland. 

In December, 1882, it was decided to increase the Ses- 
sion to twenty. 

In January, 1883, the name of the "King Street Mis- 
sion" was changed to the "Alexander Mission in King 
Street"; and a resolution was adopted with regard to 
the missions of the church that the ministry in charge 
should seek to train persons for the offices of elders, 
■deacons and teachers, with a view to their separate or- 



6o Centennial Celefiration ot tfte 

ganization as independent and separate churches, a pol- 
icy constantly reiterated by the Session from time to time 
but very difficult to achieve, because of the constant 
change in the personnel in attendance on the services, 
who drift from place to place as their circumstances re- 
quire. 

There were several attempts made to modify and im- 
prove the singing of the church. Thus in February, 
1883, there was a joint resolution to improve the singing 
"by having four voices sit (sic.) in the body of the 
church trained in singing psalmody to assist in leading 
the congregation under the direction of the precentor."^ 

Shortly afterward there was a resolution that Elders 
Day, Fraser, Sinclair and Graham, and Deacon Sloane 
be "a committee on the services of song with a view to 
their conferring with members endowed with musical 
gifts and so organize them as to contribute to greater 
unanimity, harmony and spirit in the praises of the serv- 
ice." (The report of the committee, however, was not 
accepted.) 

March 6, 1890, it was resolved to engage several per- 
sons to assist in the singing. 

June 4, 1885, an Annual Year Book was decided up- 
on, the idea being that it should be published every year 
with the addition of the names of those who had joined 
during the year, with their addresses. 

That same year authority was given to procure suita- 
ble accommodations for the Chinese Sunday School, 20 
West Fifty-ninth Street, and October of that year it was 
ordered that thereafter it should be "one of the mission 
schools of the church.'' 

In March, 1887, it was decided to discontinue the 
Seventh Avenue Mission. It was afterward organized 
into a separate church. 

At this same time a committee was appointed to see 
where a Sunday School might be organized "where the 



ififtf) atjenue pre06gtetian C&urcl) 6i 

younger members of the congregation should be in- 
vited to work as teachers," and it was the labors of this 
committee which subsequently blossomed out into the 
organization of the Young People's Association, to 
which the church is so deeply indebted for so much of 
activity and for so great accomplishment of practical 
good in the Sixty-third Street neighborhood. 

At about this same time there was a collection or- 
dered to help defray the expenses of Evangelical services 
in Cooper Institute on Sabbath evenings during the 
Winter. 

In January of 1888 a committee was appointed to 
"devise methods of providing fresh air relief for those 
attending at the various missions." 

On May 31, 1888, the venerable William Walker hav- 
ing died, Mr. Silas B. Brownell was elected to succeed 
him in the office of Stated Qerk, the responsible and 
onerous duties of which he has since continuously and 
faithfully discharged. 

In November, 1891, the Session recorded the opening 
of the Young People's Association House, at the corner 
of First Avenue and Sixty-first Street. 

January 6, 1896, it was ordered, at the request of the 
Ybung People's Association, that the sacraments be 
statedly administered at Sixty-third Street. While there 
was repeated talk from time to time of an assistant to 
the pastor, it was not until after Dr. Hall's death and in 
September ^^j^ 1900, that one was actually engaged. It 
was at that time that the Rev. Ernest F. Hall was em- 
ployed as assistant, and about two years later, upon his 
entering the foreign mission service, December 16, 1902, 
Rev. George H. Trull succeeded him, and when Mr. 
Trull was chosen as Secretary of the Foreign Board for 
Young People's Work, the Rev. Edwin F. Hallenbeck, 
D.D., was called from Binghamton and continues to be 
associated with our pastor in the parish work. 



62 Centennial CelefiraUon of tfie 

The Seventh Pastorate: 

To succeed such a pastor as John Hall, and over sa 
great a church, it was a very serious task to find a new 
leader. It was not until May, 1900, that he was se- 
cured. 

In the meantime there was naturally some disintegra- 
tion — many took letters to sister churches. It seemed 
unlikely that a man could be found who would satisfy 
the various requirements of a congregation that was 
necessarily heterogeneous. 

The Lord raised up the man in George Tybout 
Purves, then at Princeton, who gave the last year of his 
marvelous powers, while suffering almost daily physical 
agonies, to a concentrated and loving pastoral service 
that held the church together, healed what wounds there 
were, re-enlisted the workers in activity, and at the same 
time gave to our pulpit a new hold on the ear and heart 
of the public by the delivery of sermons of the like of 
which few pulpits in this or any country have been the 
source. 

We take the liberty of adopting, nearly unchanged, 
the sketch of his life prepared by Dr. J. H. Dulles for 
the Princeton University Bulletin of December, 1901. 

George Tybout Purves was bom in Philadelphia, Sep- 
tember 2y, 1852, his parents being William and Anna 
(Kennedy) Purves. He was of Scotch descent, and the 
name, Purves, may be seen any year on the rolls of the 
ministry of the Scotch and the Irish Presbyterian 
Churches. He received his preparatory education in the 
school established, and for many years successfully con- 
ducted, by John W. Faries, D.D., who belonged to the 
older regime of schoolmasters, exerting a personal in- 
fluence over their pupils scarcely possible in the more 
fully organized and more highly developed secondary 
schools of the present day. Very great industry and 
more than average ability marked the school career of 
young Purves. The religious tone of his home training 




GEORGE T. PURVES, D.D., LL.D. 



jFiftf) atjenue presfipterian Cfturcft 63 

is sufficiently indicated by the fact that at the early age 
of fourteen he made a public profession of his Christian 
faith, uniting with the First Presbyterian Church of 
Philadelphia, just before the close of the pastorate of 
the Rev. Albert Barnes. 

Entering the University of Pennsylvania, he gradu- 
ated from that institution in 1872. As a student he took 
special interest in the philosophical and linguistic depart- 
ments of the curriculum, exhibiting at the same time a 
special aptitude for public speech. His college career 
foreshadowed his later attainments as a public orator. 
After his graduation he spent a year at home in the 
further prosecution of his study of various languages, 
particularly Greek, and of general literature. It was not 
until the fall of this year, 1872, that he finally decided to 
enter the ministry. 

He entered the Theological Seminary at Princeton in 
1873, graduating three years later. He was soon noted 
as one of the most cheerful as well as most studious of 
the young men gathered in the Seminary, and early se- 
cured the esteem of his instructors and the love of his 
fellow students. In the same class with him was Prof. 
Warfield, afterward his colleague in the Seminary fac- 
ulty. He was one of those young men with a bright in- 
tellect, a warm heart and an engaging manner, for whom 
it was easy to predict a life of distinguished usefulness. 
His companions of that period had no other expectation, 
an expectation abundantly verified. He returned to the 
Seminary for a fourth year of post-graduate study of 
Biblical Theology and New Testament Exegesis, under 
Professors William Henry Green and Caspar Wistar 
Hodge. The influence of the latter over him was very 
great and did much to determine the trend of his later 
studies. 

He left Princeton in April, 1877, was ordained on the 
27th of that month, and at the same time installed pastor 
of the Wayne Presbyterian Church, near Philadelphia. 



64 Centennial Celefiration of tfje 

After three years of successful work in this relatively 
small field, he was called to the Boundary Avenue 
Church of Baltimore, which he served for six years, 
when the summons came to enter a still wider sphere 
of activity in the city of Pittsburgh. He was pastor of 
the First Church of that city from 1886 to 1892. He 
was eminently successful in these pastorates. Each re- 
quired a higher development of his powers than its 
predecessor and he more than met the requirement, until 
in the last he had gained an established reputation as 
one of the foremost preachers and most useful pastors of 
the Presbyterian Church. 

Dr. Purves had, meanwhile, steadily pursued a course 
of special study in apostolic and patristric literature. 
This was due to his scholarly tastes, which could not be 
satisfied fully in the ordinary duties of a pastor. One 
result of these studies is seen in his first book, **The 
Testimony of Justin Martyr to Early Christianity," con- 
taining the Stone Lectures delivered before Princeton 
Seminary in 1888. The chair of Church History in this 
Seminary being vacant at this time. Dr. Purves was 
called to fill it, but declined the call. He had been but 
two years in his Pittsburgh parish, and did not feel 
justified in leaving it, strongly as he felt the claims of 
his alma mater upon his services. During the year 1891- 
92 he was the acting professor of theology in the West- 
em Theological Seminary in Allegheny, adding this duty 
to his pastoral labors. 

In the fall of 1891 Prof. Caspar Wistar Hodge, who 
for thirty-one years had filled the chair of New Testa- 
ment Literature and Exegesis, died, lamented by a host 
of Princeton students, who owed much of their interest 
in the study of the New Testament to his guidance and 
instruction. The eyes of the Directors and friends of 
Princeton Seminary turned at once to the Pittsburgh 
pastor. He was duly elected to the vacant chair. Every 
pressure was brought to bear on him by his attached 



jFiftl) atjenue ptesfipterian Cfturcft 65 

congregation to induce him to remain with them; but 
the call was too urgent and he accepted it. It was to a 
branch of biblical study that had always had a special 
fascination for him, to which he had devoted much time 
amid the pressing cares of his pastoral work; a call to 
5it in the chair left vacant by the death of his most 
loved instructor, and a call uttered in much distress by 
the institution in whose welfare he was profoundly in- 
terested and whose prosperity he deemed of the utmost 
importance to the church and to the cause of truth. 

Some of his friends thought he had made a mistake 
to bury his pulpit powers, or even to subordinate them 
to any other line of activity. Bury his ten talents he 
could not. Indeed, he preached little less often after 
coming to Princeton than he had done as a pastor in 
Pittsburgh. He was at once engaged by the University 
to occupy the pulpit in Marquand Chapel about once a 
month during the academic year. This he did for a 
while. Later a series of special evening services in the 
Second Presbyterian Church of Princeton were arranged 
with Dr. Purves as the preacher, with the design of 
awakening a religious interest among the people of the 
town as well as among the students of the University. 
In this they were reasonably successful, if not as much 
so as full congregations and their eager attention might 
have led one to expect. 

In 1896, the pulpit of the First Church of Princeton 
becoming vacant, Dr. Purves acceded to the request of 
the congregation to become their acting pastor, and three 
years later he was elected and installed pastor of the 
church. This relation was to be of brief duration, for 
early in the following year, 1900, he was called to the 
pastorate of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, of 
New York City, that had not yet secured a successor to 
Dr. John Hall. He was persuaded that it was his duty 
to accept this call, in view of the condition of that par- 
ticular church and of the Presbyterian Church in New 



66 Centennial Celefiration of tfte 

York. He entered upon his new duties with his usual 
hopefulness and ardor. [He was installed May 22; 
President Francis L. Patton preached the sermon; R.ob- 
ert Russell Booth, D.D., gave the charge to the Pastor; 
Wilton Merle Smith, D.D., gave the charge to the peo- 
ple.] It was not to be a long service. Disease had laid 
hold of him before he left Princeton. Its inroads were 
slow but steady. Yet there was no alarming indication 
until almost at the end. He died of heart failure on 
Wednesday, September 24, 1901. A funeral service was 
held in his church, whence the body was brought to 
Princeton, and, after a brief service in the First Church, 
was interred in the Princeton cemetery. Dr. Purves was 
a Director of Princeton Seminary from 1883 to 1892, 
when called to its faculty, and was made a Director 
again on going to New York. At the time of his death 
he was a Trustee of Princeton University, as well as of 
Lincoln University, Pa. He was also Moderator of the 
Presbytery of New York. He received the degree of 
D.D. from Washington and Jefferson College in 1888, 
and from the University of Pennsylvania in 1894, and 
the degree of LL.D. from Lafayette College in 1895. 
Beside the volume mentioned above, he published in 
1900 a work entitled, "Christianity in the Apostolic Age," 
one of the hand-books in the Historical Series for Bible 
Students, issued by the Scribners. He also published 
numerous addresses and articles in the religious period- 
icals of the Presbyterian Church. 

It cannot be doubted that Dr. Purves had gifts of a 
high order and that he had extraordinary ability to use 
these gifts. His energy was unbounded. He was restive 
under a load of labor that would fully occupy most men. 
It is not always that the minister of the Word of God 
makes the impression on his hearers that he enjoys ex- 
ercising that function of his holy office. Dr. Purves 
made this impression. He could scarcely help being con- 
scious that he was heard gladly, yet this never lessened 



JfiftJ) atoenue pre^tipterian Cfiutcf) (^y 

his sense of the solemnity of speaking to men on the 
vital concerns of their souls. No one could be more 
jovial than he out of the pulpit, and no one more serious 
in it. His career in the pulpit justifies the judgment 
that he was a great preacher. The style of his sermons 
was so well adapted to the universal need of men that 
he was heard with equal pleasure and profit, whether he 
spoke in the Seminary Chapel, the University Chapel or 
the First Church. 

The high character of Dr. Purves' endowments was 
manifest in his work as a teacher, as it was in his pulpit 
ministrations. He was peculiarly well equipped for suc- 
cessful teaching. He had a clear, strong mind. He 
loved study, especially the study of the New Testament. 
He was deeply interested in young men, particularly in 
young men who had devoted themselves to the ministry. 
To an unusual degree he secured their affection. He 
was a living example of what a minister ought to be. 
He readily gained friends. A great host of them, from 
all intellectual and social classes, mourned his loss. He 
did a great work. He finished his work. His life was 
too intense to last through the three score and ten years 
of our allotted pilgrimage; but into less than two score 
and ten he compressed a long life of labor and love, of 
unselfish service for his Divine Master and his fellow- 
men." 

The following tablet was erected in the vestibule of 
the church: 

In Memory of 

George Tybout Purves, D.D., LL.D. 

Born Philadelphia, September 27, 1852. 

Ordained to the Gospel Ministry 

April 27th, 1877. 

Professor of 

New Testament Literature and Exegesis, 

Princeton Theological Seminary. 

Installed Pastor of this Church 



68 Centennial Celefiration of tbe 

May 22, 1900. 
Died New York, September 24, 1901. 
"A Servant of God and of the Lord 

Jesus Christ." 

The Eighth (and Present) Pastorate: 

So quickly did the candle of Dr. Purves' life burn out 
that it is noted in the report of the Session's Committee 
on the Summer services of that year that the day after 
they had heard from him that he would be in the pulpit 
September 22nd they learned of his death. 

So sweet had been his influence, so healing his min- 
istry, that the choice of his successor was made without 
division of sentiment and with remarkable expedition. 
The unanimous call of the church, dated January 15, 
1902, was extended to J. Ross Stevenson, D.D., Pro- 
fessor of Church History in McCormick Theological 
Seminary in Chicago. 

The Committee had resorted to the plan of addressing 
to about one hundred leading ministers of our denomina- 
tion in this country, in Canada and in Great Britain the 
following letter: 

"Dear Sir: Knowing the kind interest which you 
have in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, and be- 
lieving that you earnestly desire that it shall continue 
to be one of the centers for religious teaching, and one 
of the foremost churches in the denomination, . . . 
we would welcome from you, whatever names it may 
occur to you that it would be well for us to receive. Any 
communication which you might be willing to send on 
this subject, we would consider strictly confidential. 
May we not ask your prayers, that we shall be divinely 
led in the choice of a Pastor, who shall carry on the 
work which Drs. Hall and Purves have so recently been 
called away from." 

They were astounded at the degree to which these 
replies focussed on Dr. Stevenson. Providentially in- 




J. ROSS STEVENSON, D.D. 



JFiftf) aiienue pre^fiptetian Cfturcft 69 

dicated, unanimously called and universally loved, he is 
now the Centennial Pastor of our church. 

It is essential to complete this historical sketch that 
his life and pastorate be included, without infringing 
the delicate rules that restrict the friendly biographer 
of one still living. 

J. Ross Stevenson was born at Ligonier, Pa., March 
the 1st, 1866. His father, the Rev. Ross Stevenson, 
D.D., was born in Tyrone County, Ireland, and came 
over here as a youth, and through the influence of Chris- 
tian friends was educated for the ministry, and labored 
with all the intensity and eagerness of his Scotch-Irish 
nature for fifty years in the ministry of the Word among 
the people of Western Pennsylvania. His mother, Mar- 
tha Harbison, belonged to that splendid old Western 
Pennsylvania stock which has developed such a sturdy 
race of people and such earnest and stanch Presbyteri- 
ans. Ross was next to the youngest in a family of six 
sons and one daughter. He grew up among the inter- 
ests and privileges of a country minister's home life. Of 
the brothers, three studied for the ministry. His pre- 
paratory course was taken at the old Canonsburg Acad- 
emy, the former seat of Washington and Jefferson Col- 
lege. He graduated from Washington and Jefferson in 
1886. This college conferred the degree of D.D. on 
three of our pastors, Dr. James W. Alexander, Dr. John 
Hall and Dr. Purves. It is said that he never missed a 
single recitation in all his school or college life from ill- 
ness, and was never tardy to any school appointment. 
He lived at home during all his college life, and neigh- 
bors have testified that his starting for school was so 
regular and exact an event that they reckoned the time 
by it. He graduated from McCormick Theological Sem- 
inary in 1889, and studied in the University of Berlin 
through the next year. Upon his return he was called 
to the Broadway Presbyterian Church of Sedalia, Mo., 
where he remained for three years. During that time 



70 Centennial Celefiration of tfte 

he was called to various larger churches, but in every 
case, after prolonged prayer, decided to stay in the field 
to which he was first called and among the people whom 
he dearly loved, until the call came to go back to the 
Seminary among the professors who had been such an 
inspiration to him during his theological course. Just 
at this time he offered himself to the Foreign Board and 
was eager to go to India, but as he was an ofiicer in the 
Student Volunteer Movement, those who stood in the 
position of confidential advisers to him urged him to 
accept the call to the Seminary and to help among the 
students to develop missionary interest. 

His work at Chicago had been successful in the largest 
and inspirational sense. His influence upon young men 
was marked. Repeatedly he was called to important 
pulpits; but none of these calls dominated his judg- 
ment and will so as to recall him to active pastoral work 
as finally did the one from New York. 

From the letters to the Committee referring to him it 
would be improper to quote. They combined to picture 
to the church a man of quickly ripening powers, with 
the energy and enthusiasm of vigorous young manhood, 
highly cultured, devoted to music, of genial and winning 
personality, loving and loved by young men, talented 
and persuasive in the pulpit and full of the gospel spirit 
and purpose. 

He was installed April 30th, 1902. Wilton Merle- 
Smith, D.D., as Moderator, propounded the constitu- 
tional questions; Howard Duffield, D.D., preached the 
sermon; Robert Russell Booth, D.D., offered the prayer 
of installation, and Rev. Thos. J. Stevenson, a brother, 
gave the charge to the Pastor. 

The new Pastor had before him a task nearly as diffi- 
cult as that which confronted Dr. Purves. Perhaps in 
some ways greater, because he was a younger man, and 
the memory of John Hall's and of George T. Purves' 
preaching could not but handicap their so immediate 



jFiftf) atjenue pre^fipterian Cfturci) 71 

successor, but his earnest, direct, powerful presentation 
of the Gqspel, his winning personal presence, his mani^ 
fest devotion to every department of his parish duty so 
endeared him and commended him to his congregation 
as to unite them enthusiastically in response to the calls 
which his quiet but energetic leadership soon began to 
make. 

When he came the church roll had not been revised 
or purged of "deadwood" for years. The last year of 
Dr. Hall's pastorate it numbered 2669. When Dr. 
Stevenson came it was 2682. The work of revising it 
was at once begun, and the report to the Assembly of 
1903 showed over 900 names removed for death, or dis- 
appearance, or other causes. This brought the actuab 
membership to 1775. During his pastorate 313 names 
have been marked off under the column marked ''de- 
ceased," many more of course by reason of the con- 
tinued revision, while there have been added on confes- 
sion 482 and by letter 441, so that the present number 
is 2,081. 

The following recent article from one of the religious 
weeklies is suggestive: 

"During the past year the Fifth Avenue Church, the 
Rev. Dr. J. Ross Stevenson, pastor, contributed to the 
various benevolences of the church and to local expenses 
the handsome sum of $352,000, an average of above $164 
per member. Last year this church received 78 on con- 
fession of faith and 89 by letter. The present member- 
ship is 2,081. The sum of $52,093 was given to Home 
Missions and $30,250 to Foreign Missions, a total of 
$^3'343- During the same time the fifteen synods of 
Alabama, Atlantic, Canadian, Catawba, East Tennessee, 
Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, 
Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and 
West Virginia, with a membership of 120,144, gave 
$46,957 to Home Missions and $35,694 to Foreign Mis- 
sions, a total of $82,651, about 68 cents a member. Dur- 



y2 Centennial Celefiration of tfte 

ing the year the synods mentioned above received 8,510 
on confession of faith." 

This article, whatever the purpose of its pubHcation, 
is very significant, as it throws into sharp relief the posi- 
tion which the great city church occupies in contrast to 
the churches in the missionary Synods. It is not expect- 
ed of the home mission church that it shall give great 
sums to the treasuries of the Boards. Its work is pri- 
marily that of increasing the membership of the church 
by conversions, but the great Benevolent Boards of the 
church and the great philanthropies of the country make 
steady, constant and large appeals upon those who be- 
long to the large city churches. Moreover, if those 
churches are crowded and their pews are full, the min- 
ister will usually be preaching to a congregation com- 
posed almost entirely of church members, and, therefore, 
the reports of the large city church of additions on con- 
fession will usually, when analyzed, be found to refer 
chiefly to the results in that direction secured in the mis- 
sionary schools and chapels maintained by that church, 
and the additions on confession in the main church rep- 
resent the normal admissions of children of church fami- 
lies growing up into the church life. While it is, there- 
fore, a source of regret that so great a church reports 
so small a percentage of additions annually, as noted in 
this article, it is a source of pleasure that the conse- 
crated spirit of its members is such as to in part com- 
pensate by its contributions to the maintenance of the 
general work of the church at large. It is satisfactory 
also to note that since Dr. Stevenson's installation the 
church has gone steadily forward every year increasing 
the total of its gifts reported to the General Assembly. 
Even during the recent financial stringency its benefac- 
tions maintained this increase, and the examination of the 
statements as to the condition of its various organizations 
and parish societies shows in what a healthy and growing 
condition most of them are. But to avoid any misunder- 



iFiftf) atienue Pre06ptetian Cfiutcft 73 

standing, it is proper to note what is the rule of the Gen- 
eral Assembly with regard to reporting gifts in and 
through the various churches. In 1906 the General As- 
sembly adopted a very clear series of directions to 
churches with regard to what should be included in these 
reports of funds contributed. (See minutes of 1906, 
pages 218 to 220 inc.) After directing what should be 
credited to the various specific objects mentioned in the 
printed blank, there are two headings, named "Miscel- 
laneous" and "Individual Gifts." 

Under "Miscellaneous," churches are directed "To in- 
clude all moneys paid to tract societies. Christian En- 
deavor, Y. M. C. A., hospitals and general benevolences." 

Under "Individual Gifts," the Assembly directs : "If 
the donors do not object, the direct gifts of individuals 
to any of the Boards or to the causes they represent 
should be reported with other gifts under the proper 
head. Individual gifts for religious and charitable causes 
not included in the regular schedule should be placed- 
under the head "Miscellaneous." 

Development of the Church Benevolences. 

The Stated Clerk of the General Assembly, Rev. Will- 
iam H. Roberts, D.D., LL.D., has prepared for the Com- 
mittee at considerable trouble a summary of all its sta- 
tistics reported to the General Assembly for the one hun- 
dred years of our existence. These were only partial at 
the outset, or rather the requirements of the Assembly 
were not so detailed as they now are, but these statistics 
will repay careful study. It will be noted, first, that 
the contributions for home and foreign missions were 
not separated until 1839, and second, that contributions 
for the Boards did not reach the present total of eight 
until 1884. Following the suggestion in one of the 
former manuals of the church, these contributions have 
been totalled under the different pastorates and averaged 
by the number of years of such pastorate, and while they 



74 Centennial Celebration of tfte 

are not satisfactory as to the early pastorates, when 
congregational expenses and miscellaneous charities were 
not reported, they are interesting and suggestive after 
the beginning of the pastorate of James W. Alexander, 
D.D. Thus, the totals reported during the 

First pastorate of Dr. Romeyn, from 1809 to 1827, 
19 years, are $3,731, or an average of $196.36 per year. 

Second pastorate of Dr. Mason, from 1828 to 1836, 
9 years, are $13,656, or an average of $1,517.33 per year. 

Third pastorate of Dr. Potts, from 1837 to 1844, 8 
years, are $18,361, or an average of $2,295.12 per year. 

Fourth pastorate of Dr. Alexander, from 1845 t^ 
i860, 16 years, are $424,472, or an average of $26,529.50 
per year. 

Fifth pastorate of Dr. Rice, from 1861 to 1867, 7 
years, are $371,164, or an average of $53,023.42 per 
year. 

Sixth pastorate of Dr. Hall, from 1868 to 1899, 32 
years, are $4,227,345.10, or an average of $132,104.53 
per year. 

Seventh pastorate of Dr. Purves, from 1900 to 1901, 
2 years, are $274,381, or an average of $137,190.50 per 
year. 

Eighth and last pastorate of Dr. Stevenson, from 1902 
to 1908, 7 years, are $2,267,775.88, or an average of 
$323,967.98 per year. 

An analysis of the collections and gifts discloses one 
important and very gratifying fact, and that is that more 
people are giving to the various causes than used to be 
the case. The gifts of the large givers are not with- 
held or diminished, while those of the smaller givers are 
multiplying and increasing. 

The Forward Movement. 

Underlying the appeal made by Dr. Stevenson to his 
people since his advent has been the constant expression 
of his desire that the great inheritance which this church 
is now enjoying as the result of the generosity and self- 







* 


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sacrifice of previous generations in the congregation 
should not be selfishly enjoyed, but that this great plant 
should produce constant instruction and spiritual delight 
to the community in the center of which we are sit- 
uated. It may interest many to know that to that end 
the Session has resolved that the church be open daily 
for meditation and prayer, which resolution awaits for 
its going into operation the provision of sufficient funds 
for the purpose in the hands of the Trustees. In the 
meantime the so-called Forward Movement was inaugu- 
rated for the purpose of providing from the pulpit of 
this church such presentation of the Evangelistic mes- 
sage and such teaching of the truth as would appeal to 
the general public and draw them in where they might 
be influenced for good. On the teaching side, during the 
past Winter of 1907 to 1908, the course of addresses of 
Hugh Black and Francis L. Patton on certain great 
teachings of the Bible were wonderfully successful and 
profitable to the crowds who were in attendance at the 
afternoon services. On the other hand the Evangelistic 
service at the third services on Sunday evenings, appeal- 
ing to an entirely diflferent class, were also extremely 
profitable and encouraging. They were under the charge 
of the Associate Minister, Dr. Hallenbeck, and under the 
auspices of the Young People. It was announced in 
advance that there would be no attempt made to measure 
the success of these meetings by any count of attendance 
nor by any record of conversions claimed to be directly 
traceable thereto. The object was to provide the mes- 
sage without any attempt to keep a spiritual debit and 
credit account thereof. In spite of the fact that there 
were three services every Sabbath, the attendance at any 
of the services was better and more encouraging than 
had been the attendance at either of the services when 
there were but two. 

We can only note, without comment, the recent won- 



STATISTICAL REPORT FROM GENERAL ASSEMBLY 



John B. Romeyn, P 



. Potts, D.D.. P. 



! Jas, W. Alexander, D.I 



I Nathan L. Rice, D,I 



I oFFI- COMMUNICANTS 

I CERS 



5th Av.& 19th S 



Additions Losses 



12180 
12672 
13043 



STATISTICAL REPORT FROM GEx NERAL ASSEMBLY-, 




76 Centennial Celebration of the 

derful and inspiring services under "Gipsy Smith" in 
which neighboring churches loyally cooperated. 

Of the Laymen's Missionary Movement, Samuel B, 
Capen writes : 

"On November 13th and 14th, 1906, there was 
held in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in 
New York City an interdenominational meeting in 
commemoration of the centennial of the Haystack 
Prayer Meeting. 

"On the afternoon and evening following, a com- 
pany of laymen met in the chapel, of the same 
church, the invitation to this meeting being in the 
form of a 'Call to Prayer.' As a result of that meet- 
ing the Laymen's Missionary Movement was organ- 
ized." 

Two other facts in this last pastorate should also be 
recorded. The one was the death of Mr. Richard Bur- 
ton, the assistant sexton for so many years, whose in- 
terest in the church work was so intense and constant. 
He was so particularly interested in the work of the 
Board of Ministerial Relief that a memorial gift to that 
board was given after his death by friends in the congre- 
gation. 

The other fact is that Mr. Culyer, the sexton of the 
church, has passed his half century of service by nearly 
five years, linking the present administration to that of 
the first half century of the church's life. Moreover, to 
the joy of all who knew him, after setting the Lord's 
table with his own hands for so many years, he at last sat 
down himself at that table on profession of his faith in 
Jesus Christ. 

The Pastor of the Fifth Avenue Church is a mem- 
ber of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. 
A., of the Board of Foreign Missions, of the Council 
of the New York University, is one of the Directors 
of Princeton Seminary, and has to do his share of 
committee work in the important Presbyterial activi- 
ties, such as the Church Extension Committee and 
others, and at the same time he is confronted with an 



ififtj) atJenue Pte0ti?terian Cfturcft 77 

increasingly difficult task, if this privilege can be called 
a task, to wit : of pastoral visitation. The families of the 
church are widely far apart. There is less permanence 
in the homes of people residing in a city, and changes 
in address are frequent, and yet he has been able to deal 
with remarkable success with this problem. He is great- 
ly blessed by the earnest and constant desire of the young 
people of the church to engage in active work. There 
are few churches in which the young people are ac- 
complishing so much and so important work as in ours, 
where the finely organized form which the young peo- 
ple's association has taken in regard to the mission and 
institutional work of the church has necessitated their 
incorporation under the membership laws of the church. 
Two other important steps have recently been taken by 
the session that are little known yet. The one is to 
authorize the Deacons to administer the elements at the 
communion services held in the chapels ; another is the 
authority to procure a new hymn book for our services 
as soon as the necessary funds can be provided by the 
Trustees. 

Work of the Official Boards. 

The Session. 

In spite of the strength of Presbyterianism as a de- 
nomination, it is rather remarkable that its general mem- 
bership have very vague ideas as to the functions of the 
Church Session and have little conception of the magni- 
tude of the duties which they have to perform. 

"The Church Session consists of the Pastor or Pastors 
and Ruling Elders of a particular congregation." (Form 
of Government, Chap. 9, Art. I.) 

"The Church Session is charged with maintaining the 
spiritual government of the congregation ; for which pur- 
pose they have power to inquire into the knowledge and 
Christian conduct of the members of the church, to call 
before them offenders and witnesses being members of 



78 Centennial Celebration of tfte 

their own congregation, and to introduce other witnesses 
where it may be necessary to bring the process to issue 
and when they can be procured to attend; to receive 
members into the church ; to admonish, to rebuke, to 
suspend or exclude from the sacraments those who are 
found to deserve censure; to concert the best measures 
for promoting the spiritual interest of the congregation, 
and to appoint delegates to the higher judicatories of the 
church." (Id. Art. VI.) 

The words italicized describe, in a healthy, hard-work- 
ing church, the chief activities of the Session. It has 
been necessary in recent years to continually increase the 
membership of the Session in order that the various 
kinds of work to be done may be distributed more fairly, 
so that the individual members shall not be overworked. 
It is sometimes not fully realized that the members of 
one of our large city churches have to serve as members 
of the boards of the church and on imp>ortant Presbytery 
and Synod committees, and are also directors on the 
various hospital and charitable boards having headquar- 
ters in New York ; and, therefore, the burden of the local 
parish work must either fall entirely on a paid ministerial 
force or there must be a large Session to divide the labor. 
Some idea of the amount of work that has to be done 
can be gathered from the various committees of the Ses- 
sion. There are standing committees on the Home Sun- 
day School, on the John Hall Memorial Chapel, on the 
Alexander Chapel, on the Chinese Sabbath School, on 
finance and benevolence, on music and public worship. 
There are special committees on hospitality, on forward 
movement, and on such special subjects as come up from 
time to time in the nature of emergency work or of new 
developing activities. Some of these committees have 
a close relation to the work of the Trustees ; for example, 
the Committee on Music and Public Worship. The Ses- 
sion has control of the character of the service, and could, 
of course, veto the rendering of music in the church by 



Jfiftf) atienue pre06pterian Cfiurcft 79 

persons objectionable on spiritual grounds, but the Trus- 
tees are the only body who can bind the church by con- 
tract, and, therefore, the Trustees make the musical con- 
tracts, employ the organist and the singers, and, at this 
point, the harmonious co-operation of the two bodies is 
specially emphasized. The disciplinary function of the 
Session is fortunately, nowadays, little invoked or called 
into action, but the oversight of the congregation is an 
important matter. There are sub-committees of the Ses- 
sion over the whole congregation, who are expected to 
note the attendance of church members ; their prolonged 
absence is noted and inquired into, and often cases of 
sickness not reported directly to the pastor come to his 
attention in this way. The meetings of the Session are 
frequent and often prolonged. As a church judicatory 
its meetings are solemnly convened and closed with 
prayer. There is a free interchange of opinion on mat- 
ters of current interest. The rule of the Presbyterian 
Church warrants action by a majority, but it is delightful 
to note how infrequently in recent years there has been 
any divided vote in the Session of our church. The con- 
sideration of appeals for our benevolent help, and the 
preparation of the annual calendar of offerings, and the 
fixing of the annual budget for the chapels and schools 
is a most serious task, and the Committee on Finance and 
Benevolence meets statedly and reports regularly. The 
distribution of the elements at the Lord's Supper in 
many churches committed to the Deacons is in our church 
a privilege of the Session. Members of the Session are 
elected for life, while in some churches with the approval 
of the General Assembly they are elected on the rotary 
system for specific terms. Every Sunday morning before 
the first services the Session meets statedly and engages 
in prayer for the service of the day and for those who 
are to present the Gospel Message from the pulpit. Per- 
haps one of the most precious memories that any Pastor 
of this church can preserve is that of the earnest, simple 



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prayers at Session meetings of such a man, to name but 
one, as the late John Sinclair, whose dying prayer on be- 
half of his fellow Elders was not only a proof of the 
earnest interest he had in their work, but proved a won- 
derful incentive to them all to emulate his own devo- 
tion and fidelity of service. 
The Trustees. 

The work of the Trustees of the church considered 
as a corporation is also little appreciated by the average 
pew-holder or communicant. The Trustees of the Fifth 
Avenue Presbyterian Church do not merely act as the 
rentors of sittings in the church and the collectors of pew 
rents ; they hold in trust for the church all its temporali- 
ties, aggregating in value nearly two millions of dollars. 
Through the house committee they attend to the repairs 
and insurance of its buildings. Those who were inti- 
mately acquainted with the late Francis Forbes are 
aware of his almost daily attendance to the important 
duties of this particular committee. The Trustees repre- 
sent the church in the community. They have to observe 
the regulations of the fire department, insurance depart- 
ment, building department, and sometimes of the health 
department. In the records of the Board during the last 
one hundred years, v/e find recorded the names of some 
of the most prominent lawyers and judges of New York 
City: Mr. Lord, Mr. De Forest, Mr. Day, Mr. Nash, 
Judge Davis, Judge Van Vorst, to mention no others; 
and questions often arose during these years on which 
these men rendered without charge laborious, complete 
and voluminous opinions on matters of the church and 
civil law, some of which might well be reproduced and 
preserved for general information. In our various pur- 
chases and transfers of church property the very best 
service of trained legal minds has been constantly re- 
quired. The Committee on Church Music has a most 
important relation to the spiritual interest of the church. 
The House Committee is the housekeeper of the church, 



jfiftf) atjenue pte^ftptetian Cfiurcft 8i 

and sets the house in order and keeps it clean and always 
fit for the worship of God. Its Finance Committe deals 
with larger amounts and more important interests than 
many Boards of Directors of business corporations. It 
is a quiet service, little heralded, little appreciated, but 
constant in its demands upon the self-denying spirit of 
those who thus serve the church. 
The Deacons. ■ 

The Deacons* Board, which is composed of nine mem- 
bers, holds regular meetings bi-monthly and special meet- 
ings as often as is required by circumstances; the April 
meeting being the Annual Meeting, when a report of the 
work done during the year is presented. 

The church being large and having two mission chap- 
els there are necessarily many members of the church 
and congregation who look to the Board for assistance 
and guidance. 

While the Deacons are expected "to take care of the 
poor and to distribute among them the collections which 
may be raised for their use," they also do many things 
not usually considered a part of their work. Members 
of the Board visit the sick and see that proper medical 
treatment is procured for them in their homes or that 
admission to hospitals is secured when that is necessary ; 
convalescent care is arranged for in Convalescent Homes 
or in private boarding places in the country when the 
person is sufficiently recovered to leave the hospital, but 
not well enough to resume his usual vocation. The 
Board arranges for the admission of the superannuated 
into homes for the aged. This is at times very difficult, 
as most of the homes for the aged are full, with long 
waiting lists. Sometimes, after waiting for years, when 
an opportunity comes, the person has changed his mind 
and will not enter. Memb€rs of the Church who have 
come from other places and who have friends or rela- 
tives able and willing to care for them are sent back to 
their old homes. During the past year one woman was 



82 Centennial Celefttation o£ tfte 

sent back to Scotland, one man to Texas, and one mem- 
ber, becoming insane, was sent to an asylum. One mem- 
ber who became stranded in England was brought back 
to New York and placed in a home. Boarding places 
must be found, and frequently the person becoming dis- 
satisfied without sufficient cause refused to remain, and 
another place must be found. Many other things of a 
minor character must be done to satisfy all those de- 
pendent upon us. 

There are at the present time eighteen regular pen- 
sioners under our care, and there are many others who 
are helped from time to time. The Board spends in the 
care of the dependent between $2,500 ^v^ $3,000 each 
year. 

The Board also assists the Session at the communion 
services at both the John Hall Memorial and Alexander 
Chapels; meets at times with the other Boards of the 
church to consider plans for carrying on the great work 
of the entire church; and does such other work as may 
be assigned to it by either the Pastor or Session. The 
Board is always ready to do its part in special evangel- 
istic services or any other way in which it may help to 
advance the Kingdom of Christ. 
Conclusion. 

The reading of this sketch, for that is all that it can 
be called, fragmentary though it be, will satisfy any one 
that the problems before us as a great city church are 
very little different, except in degree, from those so 
pathetically recorded by Dr. James W. Alexander and 
above quoted. How to reach the unchurched masses? 
How to minister to the physical needs of the poor and 
suffering? Is endowment necessary for downtown 
work? Can our mission churches be set on their feet 
with independent boards and with some hope of self- 
support ? Are we at the center of our own parish work ? 
How can our great church plant produce the largest 
spiritual dividends? How can the midweek prayer 



Jfiftti auenue Pte06pterian Cfturcj) 83 

meetings be increased in efficiency and profit? How can 
the competing attractions of social life on Wednesday 
evening and on the Sabbath day be more effectively 
counteracted and the deteriorating influence of disregard 
of the ordinances of the church be avoided or remedied ? 
These problems should stimulate and not discourage us, 
and it is hoped that this review of our one hundred 
years of life and activity will show that, so long as the 
Gospel Message and appeal to Christian living issue 
from the pulpit each Lord's day, and just so long as 
the influence of Christian living emanates from our 
congregation as a center, the church must and will con- 
tinue to do its evangelizing and benevolent work with 
increasing efficiency as it has been doing now for one 
hundred years. 



84 Centennial Celebration of tbt 

CALENDAR OF CHURCH AND MISSION 
ACTIVITIES IN NEW YORK CITY. 

SUNDAY 

At Fifty-fifth Street. 

Public Worship at 1 1 A. M., 4 P. M. (and 8 P. M. from 
November till April). 

Bible School and Adults' Bible Classes, 9 130 A. M. 

Devotional Meeting of Young People's Association, first 
and third Sundays of each month, after the evening 
service. 

The Lord's Supper is administered on the second Sun- 
days of October, December, February, April, and on 
the last Sunday in May, at 4 o'cl(.K:k. 

Baptism of Infants at the Morning Service on Com- 
munion Sundays. 

At Alexander Chapel 

Public Worship, 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. 

Sunday School, 10 A. M. and 2:15 P. M. 

The Young People's Forward Movement Society, 7:15 
P. M. 

The Lord's Supper is administered on the third Sundays 
of October, December, February, April and June, at 
7:45 P-M. 

At Chinese Sunday School. 

Chinese Prayer Meeting, 7:15 P. M. 

Service of Song, Chinese and English, 7:45 P. M. 

Sunday School, 8 P. M. 

Teachers' Prayer Meeting, second Sunday in each month, 
7:30 P. M. 

At John Hall Memorial Chapel. 

Public Worship, 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. 

Intermediate Christian Endeavor, 10:30 A. M. 

Y. P. S. C E., 7 P. M. 

The Lord's Supper is administered on the third Sundays 
in October, December, February, April and June, 
8 P. M. 



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MONDAY 
At John Hall Memorial Chapel. 
Boys' Printing Class, 8:30 P. M. 

TUESDAY 
At Fifty-iifth Street. 
Women's Employment Society, in the room over the 

Chapel, 10 A. M. 
Women's Prayer Meeting, at noon, in the Minister's 

Room. 
Trustees meet on 3rd Tuesdays of February, April, May 

and October, and on the 4th Tuesday of December. 
At Alexander Chapel. 
Boys' Half-Hour Society, 4 P. M. 
At John Hall Memorial Chapel. 
Mid-week Prayer and Praise Service, 8 P. M. 
Boys' Club Praise Meeting, 7:30 P. M. 
Communicants' Bible Class for girls, 3 45 P. M. 

WEDNESDAY 
At Fifty-iifth Street. 

Mid-week Service in the Lecture Room, 8:15 P. M. 
At John Hall Memorial Chapel. 
Women's Bible Class, 2:30 P. M. 
Junior Girls' Gymnasium Class, 7 P. M. 
Senior Girls' Gymnasium Class, 8 P. M. 
Drill of John Hall Memorial Cadets, 7 130 P. M. 
Men's Club Meeting, 8 P. M. 

THURSDAY 
At Fifty-iifth Street. 

Stated Meeting of Session at 8:15, the Thursday even- 
ing before the second Sunday of the month. 
At Alexander Chapel. 
Prayer Meeting, 8 P. M. 
Choir Rehearsal, 9 to 9:40 P. M. 
At John Hall Memorial Chapel. 
Workers' Devotional Meeting, 9:30 A. M. 



86 Centennial Celebration of tfte 

Girls' Club Social Night, 8 P. M. 
Boys' Club Hammock Class, 8 P. M. 
Senior Boys' Club Night, 8 P. M. 

FRIDAY 

At Fifty-Hfth Street. 

Ladies' Auxiliary Missionary Meeting in the Lecture 
Room on the last Friday of each month, ii A. M. 

Young Ladies' Missionary Meeting in the Lecture Room 
on the last Friday of each month, 3 P. M. 

Junior Missionary Society on the first and third Fridays 
of each month, at 3 45 P. M. 

Preparatory Service on the Fridays previous to the Com- 
munion, 8:15 P. M. 

At Alexander Chapel. 

Children's Hour, 4 P. M. 

Junior Endeavor Society, 7 P. M. 

Pastor's Aid Society, 8 P. M. 

At John Hall Memorial Chapel. 

Girls' Cooking Class, 8 P. M. 

Girls' Millinery Class, 8 P. M. 

Boys' and Girls' Mission Band, 3 45 P. M. 

Boys' Gymnasium Class, 7:30 P. M. 

At Alexander Chapel. 

Sewing School, 10 130 A. M. 

Church Sociable, second Tuesday in each month, 8 P. M. 

At John Hall Memorial Chapel. 

Sewing School (November to May), 10:30 A. M. 

EVERY EVENING 
At John Hall Memorial Chapel and Association House, 
except Sunday and Tuesday, Clubs, Classes, Baths, 
Reading Room and Gymnasium, open to members. 

EVERY WEEK-DAY 
At John Hall Memorial Chapel and Association House, 
Day Nursery and Kindergarten, 1147 First Avenue. 



Jfiftf) atienue pre06pterian Cfturcft 87 

PREACHING, TEACHING AND WORKING 

FORCE EMPLOYED BY THE CHURCH 

OR ITS SOCIETIES. 

Rev. J. Ross Stevenson, D.D,, Pastor, 19 East 66th Street. 
Rev. Edwin F. Hallenbeck, D.D., Associate Minister, 7 West 

55th Street. 
Mr. George C Hood, Assistant, 7 West S5th Street. 

FOREIGN MISSIONARIES (associate ministers abroad). 
Rev. Charles C. Sawtell, Seoul, Corea. 
Guy W. Hamilton, M.D., Shuntefu, China. 
Mrs. Hamilton, Shuntefu, China. 
Rev. Edwin C. Hawley, Shuntefu, China. 
Mrs. Hawley, Shuntefu, China. 
Rev. J. A. Miller, Shuntefu, China. 
Mrs. Miller, Shuntefu, China. 
Miss Emma Hicks, Shuntefu, China. 

Mrs. James W. Hawkes (Ladies' Auxiliary), Ramadan, 
Persia. 

HOME MISSIONARIES, outside New York City. 
Martin B. Lewis, Minnesota. 
Mr. John A. Sellers, Menau, Idaho. 

Mr. R. G. Long (Ladies Auxiliary), Asheville Farm School. 
Rev. S. R. Spriggs (Ladies' AuxiHary), Point Barrow, Alaska. 
Rev. a. Grant Evans (^ Ladies' Auxiliary), Muskegee, I. T. 
Miss Mathes (K Ladies' Auxiliary), Old D wight Mission, 

I. T. 
Farmer Sam (Ladies' Auxiliary), Old D wight Mission, I. T. 

The Ladies also provide for 
Medical work in Hospital and Dispensary at Sitka. 
Partial Support of Magyar Bible Reader. 
Partial Support of Freedman's School, Mayersville, S. C. 
Ten scholarships in Home Mission Schools. 

CITY MISSIONARIES. 

Rev. Hugh Pritchard at Alexander Chapel, 117 Waverly 

Place. 
Rev. Albert L. Evans at John Hall Memorial Chapel, 342 

East 63d Street. 
Rev. Paul R. Abbott at John Hall Memorial Chapel, 342 

East 63d Street. 



ss Centennial Celefiration of ttt 



PAID WORKERS AT HOME CHURCH. 
Secretary: 

Miss Eugenia Torrence, 7 West 55th Street. 
Sexton : 

Mr. William Culyer, 7 West 55th Street. 
Assistant Sexton: 

Mr. Nathaniel Morrow, 7 West 55th Street. 

Choir. 
Organist: 

Mr. Frank L. Sealy, 344 Park Avenue, Newark, N. J, 
Soprano : 

Mrs. Hissem K. DeMoss, 106 West 90th Street. 
Contralto: 

Mrs. Elizabeth D. Leonard, 40 Gramercy Park. 
Tenor: 

Mr. Edward W. Strong, 7 West 92d Street. 
Baritone: 

Mr. Frederick Martin, 142 West 91st Street. 

PAID WORKERS AT 63RD STREET. 
Visitor: 

Mrs. Agnes Philips, 342 East 63d Street. 
Visitor: 

Miss Elise Hoffman, 342 East 63d Street. 
Organist and Chorister: 

Mr. George E. Knowles, 342 East 63d Street. 
Chorister: 

William T. Randolph, 342 East 63d Street. 
Pianist: 

Emil Kohout, 342 East 63d Street. 
Gymnasium Instructor: 

Mr. James W. Mustor, 342 East 63d Street. 
Stenographer: 

Miss Jeannette Stark, 342 East 63d Street. 
Matron of Day Nursery: 

Mrs. C. M. McEvoy, 342 East 63d Street. 
(Also three nurses, laundress and cook.) 
Kindergartner: 

Miss Margaret Penman, 342 East 63d Street. 
Supt. of Men's Club: 

Philip Hoefer, 342 East 63d Street. 
Supt. of Girls' Club: 

Six instructors for industrial classes who have not been se- 
lected for this year's work. 



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House Cleaner: 

Mrs. Amelia Howell, 342 East 63d Street. 
Janitor: 

Mr. Paul Dahlman, 342 East 63d Street. 
Ass't Janitor: 

Mr. John Ryan, 342 East 63d Street. 

PAID WORKERS AT ALEXANDER CHAPEL. 

Organist: 

Mr. W. F. Sherman. 
Visitor: 

Miss Mary Hawkshurst. 
Selling School Supervisor: 

Mrs. Hyde. 
Janitress: 

Mrs. George Bullwinkle. 

PASTORS AND OFFICERS OF THE CHURCH. 
1808-1908. 

PASTORS. 

1. John Brodhead Romeyn, D.D. 

Served — November 9th, 1808, to February 22d, 1825. 
Relation dissolved by death. 

2. Cyrus Mason. 

Served — December 7th, 1826, to September 5th, 1835. 
Relation dissolved by Presbytery. 

3. George Potts, D.D. 

Served — May 17th, 1836, to April i6th, 1844. 
Relation dissolved by Presbytery. 

4. James W. Alexander, D.D. 

Served — October 3d, 1844, to June 25th, 1849. 

Relation dissolved by Presbytery in obedience to Gen- 
eral Assembly's assignment of him to Princeton 
Theological Seminary. 

Reinstalled and served November 12th, 1851, to Octo- 
ber nth, 1859. 

Relation dissolved by death. 

5. Nathan L. Rice, D.D. 

Served — April 28th, 1861, to April i6th, 1867. 
Relation dissolved by Presbytery. 

6. John Hall, D.D., LL.D. 

Served— November 3d, 1867, to September 17th, 1898. 
Relation dissolved by death. 



90 



Centennial Celelitation of tht 



George T. Purves, D.D., LL.D. 

Served — May 226, 1900, to September 24th, 1901. 
Relation dissolved by death. 
J. Ross Stevenson, D.D. 

Serving from April 30th, 1902. 

ELDERS. 



CHOSEN 

Jan. I, 1809 — 
Zechariah Lewis 
William Cleveland 

Oct. 31, 1809— 
Elisha Coit 
Solomon Williams 

Dec. 27, 1810— 
Isaac Ives 
John E. Caldwell 
Samuel Whiting 
George Fitch 
Divie Bethune 

Aug. I, 1819— 
Benjamin Strong 
Oliver Wilcox 
Hugh Auchincloss 
Thomas Masters 

Mar. 9, 1827 — 
Francis Markoe 

Nov. I, 1829— 
Joseph Otis 
Horace Hinsdale 
Cyrenius Beers 
John W. Carrington 
Henry Young 

Dec. 13, 1831— 
Simeon Hyde 

Apr. 13, 1845— 
William Walker 
Nathan T. Jennings 
George M. McLean 

Apr. II, 1853— 
Joseph Hyde 
Thomas U. Smith 
J. J. Greenough 
James M. Halsted 



CHOSEN 

Feb. 16, 1862— 

David Hoadley 

David Irwin 

Henry Day 

Henry G. DeForest 

Jeremiah Baker 
Nov. 22, 1869 — 

Jacob D. Vermilye 

Wm. L. Skidmore 

James Eraser 

Robert Bliss 

Cornelius R. Agnew 

Mar. 8, 1877— 
John Sinclair 
John Paton 
Malcolm Graham 
John H. Mortimer 
William Campbell 
Hooper C. Van Vorst 
William Sloane 

Mar. 12, 1882— 
John Sloane 
John N. Ewell 
George Hunter Brown 
Birdseye Blakeman 
Ewen McIntyre 
Silas B. Brownell 

Apr. 12, 1891— 
Robert Beggs 
Henry L. Smith 
John J. McCook 
H. Edwards Rowland 
William Dulles, Jr. 
Henry B. Barnes 

May 22, 1898— 
James A. Frame 



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CHOSEN 

Wm. Irwin 

Samuel B. Schieffelin 
James Talcott 
Dec. 14, 1902 — 
George Taylor 
James M. Stuart 
Samuel S. Auchincloss 



CHOSEN 

Edwin J. Gillies 
Henry W. Jessup 
Apr. I, 1906 — 
DwiGHT H. Day 
Charles F. Darlington 
Henry B. Barnes ( reinstalled) 
Fred'k a. Wallis 



DEACONS. 



chosen 

Jan. I, 1809— 
George Fitch 

Dec. 2^], 1810 — 
William Hall 
Oliver Wilcox 
Hugh Auchincloss 

Aug. I, 1819 — 
Charles Richards 
Cyrenius Beers 
Horace Hinsdale 

Dec. 18, 1821— 
Knowles Taylor 
Marcus Wilbur 

Nov. I, 1829 — 

Dennis Davenport 
Alfred C. Post 
William Walker 

Apr. 13, 1845— 
Thomas U. Smith 

GURDON BuRCHARD 

J. J. Greenough 

Apr. II, 1853— 
Henry Day 
Henry G. DeForest 

Feb. 16, 1862— 

JosiAH S. Leverett 
William L. Skidmore 
Horace J. Fairchild 

Nov. 22, 1869 — 



chosen 

John H. Mortimer 

Frederick W. Whittemore 
Mar. 8, 1877— 

Alexander Maitland 

John Sloane 

Edgar S. Auchincloss 

EwEN McIntyre 
Mar. 12, 1882 — 

Henry L. Smith 

George G. Wheelock, M. D. 

David Magie, M. D. 

Robert Beggs 
Apr. 12, 1891 — 

John Inglis 

James A. Frame 

James R. Jesup, Jr. 
May 22, 1898 — 

Francis Forbes 

Joel W. Thorne 

Alfred Vondermuhl 
Dec. 14, 1902 — 

Silas E. Hallock, M. D. 

Matthew C. Fleming 

Warner M. Van Norden 
Apr. I, 1906 — 

Henry B. Barnes, Jr. 

Thomas Savage Clay 

James A. Hawes 

John Nicolson 



TRUSTEES. 
The following were members of the Board of Trus- 
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given date after 1829, read in the names for the two 
preceding years also. Our Trustees are elected three 
every year, to serve three years, and are not immediately 
eligible for reelection. 



Mar. 2, 1827— 

Thomas Darling 

Robert Buloid 

Geo. W. Talbot 

RuFus Davenport 

Wm. H. Halsted 

Ralph Olmsted 

Wm. W. Chester 

Hem AN Averill 
Dec. 22, 1827 — 

Joel Post 

RuFus Davenport 

Wm. W. Chester 

RuFus L. Nevins 

Geo. W. Talbot 

John W. Leavitt 

John A. Stevens 

Silas Brown 
Feb. 20, 1828— 

John A. Stevens 

John W. Leavitt 

RuFus L. Nevins 
Dec. 8, 1828— 

Geo. Griswold 

(Resigned Dec. 14, 1829) 

Silas Brown 

John C. Johnson 
Dec. 14, 1829 — 

John Taylor 

(Resigned Dec, 1830) 

Wm. Howard 

Charles Squire 

Wm. C. Mulligan 
(To fill vacancy) 
Dec. 13, 1830 — 

Seth p. Staples 

Barzillai Deming 

Wm. p. Stuart 

(Deceased 1831) 



Thomas Darling 
(To fill vacancy) 

Dec. 12, 183 1— 

GuRDON Buck 

Caleb O. Halsted 

David Codwise 

R. H. McCuRDY 

(To fill vacancy) 
Dec. 24, 1832— 

John W. Leavitt 

Najah Taylor 

Joel Post 

(Deceased 1835) 
Dec. 9, 1833— 

Wm. Howard 

Samuel Stevens 
(Declined) 

Hem AN Averill 

(Deceased 1835) 
Dec. 8, 1834— 

Robert Buloid 

GuRDON Buck, Jr. 
Dec. 9, 1839 — 

Gardiner G. Howland 

Ben J. L. Swan 
(Declined) 

David Lee 
Dec. 14, 1840 — 

Robert Buloid 

John W. Leavitt 

Silas Brown 

Wm. H. Smith 

(To fill vacancy) 
Dec. 13, 1841 — 

Wm. Hov;^ard 

James N. Cobb 

Henry W. Olcott 



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Dec. 12, 1842 — 
Wm. M. Halsted 

(Resigned 1844) 
John C Green 

(Declined) 
John A. Underwood 

(Resigned Apr., 1843) 

Dec. II, 1843— 
Stephen Whitney 
Seth Grosvenot 

(Declined) 
Henry Andrews 
RuFus Leavitt 

(Resigned 1844) 
Harvey Weed 

(To fill vacancy) 

(Resigned 1844) 
Wm. M. Halsted 
David Lee 

(Declined) 
John A. Stevens 

(To fill vacancy) 

Feb. 16, 183s— 

Morris Ketchum 

James N. Cobb 

(To fill vacancy) 
Dec. 14, 1835— 

Gordon Buck 

Thomas Darling 

RuFus Davenport 
Dec. 12, 1836— 

John W. Leavitt 

John G. Nelson 

Barzillai Deming 
Dec. II, 1837— 

William Howard 

James N. Cobb 

Henry W. Olcott 
Dec. 10, 1838— 

Wm. M. Halsted 

John A. Stevens 
Dec. 16, 1844— 

Robert Buloid 

Geo. Ireland 



Seth Grosvenor 
Joseph Gerard 
John Auchincloss 

Dec. 15, 1845— 
James N. Cobb 
Nathaniel Halsted 
Thomas A. Cummins 

Dec. 21, 1846 — 
Thomas Hugh Smith 
Joseph Girard 
John Auchincloss 
James N. Cobb 

Dec. 2.^, 1847— 
Rufus Davenport 
Edward Field 
Charles St. John 

Dec. 18, 1848— 
George Ireland 
William Scott 
Henry G. De Forest 

Dec. 18, 1849— 
Stephen Whitney 
James N. Cobb 
Thomas A. Cummins 

Dec. 16, 1850— 
John Auchincloss 
Thomas Scott 
Thomas Hugh Smith 
Stephen Whitney 

Dec. 15, 1851— 
Rufus Davenport 
Edmund Penfold 
Horatio S. Brown 

Dec. 20, 1852 — 
Richard Irwin 
Henry S. Terbell 
Henry G. De Forest 
Rufus Davenport 

Jan. 16, 1854— 
Wm. Scott 
James N. Cobb 
Wm. Whitewright, Jr. 

Dec. 19, 1854— 
Robert L. Stuart 



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Wm. G. Lambert 
G. Talbot Olyphant 

Jan. 21, 1856— 
Peter McMartin 
Edmund Penfold 
Thomas A. Cummins 

Feb. 18, 1857— 
Charles F. Park 
Henry S. Terbell 
Moses A. Hoppock 

Dec. 30, 1857— 
William Scott 
James N. Cobb 
Henry G. De Forest 

Dec. 27, 1858— 
Geo. Talbot Olyphant 
Thos. S. Young 
James Low. 

Jan. 16, i860 — 
Lucius Hopkins 
James Barnes 
Henry M. Alexander 

Jan. 26, 1861— 
Moses G. Baldwin 
Moses A. Hoppock 
Peter McMartin 

Jan. 13, 1862— 
Edward H. Owen 
Edward S. Clark 
Robert Girsen 

Jan. 31, 1863— 
William Paton 
G. Talbot Olyphant 
James Eraser 

Jan. 20, 1864 — 
Thomas A. Cummins 

(For two years) 
Henry M. Alexander 
Oliver Harriman 
Jacob Van Wagenen 

Dec. 29, 1865— 
Robert L. Stuart 
Robert Gordon 

(Resigned 1867) 



Lucius Hopkins 

Jan. 5, 1867— 
William Paton 

(To fill vacancy) 
E. H. Owen 
Harvey Fisk 
James Eraser 

Jan. 8, 1868— 
John H. Mortimer 
Parker Handy 
Jacob Van Wagenen" 

Jan. II, 1869 — 
John A. Stewart 
Moses G. Baldwin 
D. Edwin Hawley 

Dec. 31, 1869— 
Robert S. Stuart 
William Paton 
Oliver Harriman 

Dec. 21, 1870 — 
Robert Bonner 
James R. Jesup 
James W. Alexander. 

Dec. 22, 1871 — 
W. K. Major 
Charles Lanier 
Jacob Van Wagenen 

Dec. 20, 1872 — 
John A. Stewart 
Moses G. Baldwin 
D. Edwin Hawley 

Dec. 19, 1873 — 
Robert L. Stuart 
William Sloane 
John S. Kennedy 

Dec. 28, 1874— 
James Low 
Robert Bonner 
Henry B. Hyde 

Dec. 28, 1875— 
Hooper C. Van Vorst 
Henry A. Hurlbut 
Henry M. Alexander 



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Dec. 26, 1876 — 
John A. Stewart 
William Libbey 
Harvey Fisk 

(Resigned 1878) 

Dec. 26, 1877— 
Robert L. Stewart 
John S. Kennedy 
Oliver Harriman 

Dec 23, 1878— 
Robert Bonner 
Noah Davis 
Robert Hoe 

BiRDSEYE BlAKEMAN 

(To fill vacancy) 

Dec. 23, 1879— 
Wm. D. Sloane 
Parker Handy 
Charles Lanier 

Dec. 28, 1880— 
Birdseye Blakeman 
Henry A. Hurlbut 
John A. Livingston 
(Deceased 1882) 

Dec. 27, 1881— 
Robert L. Stuart 
John S. Kennedy 
Jacob Campbell 

Dec 26, 1882— 
Robert Bonner 
Thomas C. Sloane 
Robert W. De Forest 

Dec 24, 1883— 
Parker Handy 
Oliver Harriman 
John W. Auchincloss 
Samuel Thorne 
(To fill vacancy) 

Dec 23, 1884— 
Henry A. Hurlbut 
Fred Sturges 
A. G. Agnew 

Dec. 22, 1885— 
John S. Kennedy 



Wm. D. Sloane 
Samuel Thorne 
Dec 28, 1886— 
Robert Bonner 
Robert W. De Forest 
John H. Inman 

Dec. 27, 1887— 
Oliver Harriman 
John W. Auchincloss 
Constance A. Andrews 

Dec 18, 1888— 
Henry A. Hurlbut 
Thos. C. Sloane 
Frederic Sturges 

Dec. 24, 1889— 
John S. Kennedy 
Wm. a. Wheelock 
James O. Sheldon 

Dec. 23, 1890— 
Robert Bonner 
Robert W. De Forest 
James R. Jesup 

Dec 22, 1 89 1 — 
Oliver Harriman 
Wm. D. Sloane 
John W. Auchincloss 
(Resigned 1892) 

Dec 2"], 1892 — 
Frederic Sturges 
John P. Duncan 
Horace E. Garth 
Hugh D. Auchincloss 
(To fill vacancy) 

Dec 26, 1893 — 
John S. Kennedy 
James O. Sheldon 
James Frazer 

Dec. 2^, 1894 — 
Robert Bonner 
Robert W. De Forest 
James R. Jesup 

Dec 17, 189s— 
E. Francis Hyde 
(Resigned 1898) 



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Robert H. Robertson 

(Resigned 1898) 
Francis Forbes 
Dec. 22, 1896 — 
John P. Duncan 

(Resigned 1898) 
Horace K Garth 

(Resigned 1898) 
Geo. G, Wheelock 

(Resigned 1898) 
Dec. 28, 1897— 
John S. Kennedy 

(Resigned 1898) 
James O. Sheldon 
James Fraser 

(Deceased 1898) 
Feb. 14, 1898— 
Samuel Thomas 
Robert W. Stuart 
Geo. F. Vietor 
John W. Auchincloss 
Charles P. Britton 
Geo. B. Agnew 

(To fill vacancies) 
Dec. 27, 1898— 
Robert Bonner 

(Deceased 1899) 
A. G. Agnew 
Horace S. Ely 
Dec. 26, 1899— 
Charles P. Britton 
Wm. C. McGibbon 
Alfred Vondermuhl 
Francis Forbes 

(To fill vacancy) 
Dec. 25, 1900— 
Robert W. Stuart 
Geo. F. Vietor 
Noah C. Rogers 



Dec. 17, 1901 — 
Geo. B. Agnew 
James M. Edwards 
Geo. Taylor 

Dec. 23, 1902 — 
Francis Forbes 

(Deceased 1904) 
Stuart Duncan 
Edgar S. Auchincloss 

Dec. 22, 1903 — 
Charles P. Britton 
Horace S. Ely 
Alfred Vondermuhl 

Dec. 27, 1904 — 
A. G. Agnew 

(To fill vacancy) 
Geo. F. Vietor 
Noah C. Rogers 

(Resigned 1906) 
James H. Schmelzel 

Dec. 4, 1905— 
G. B. Agnew 
James M. Edwards 
Geo. Taylor 

Dec. 3, 1906 — 
John Stewart 

(To fill vacancy) 
Hugh Getty 
John V. Irwin 
Wm. H. Woodin 

Dec. 2, 1907 — 
C. R. Agnew 
E. S. Auchincloss 
M. C. Fleming 

Dec. 7, 1908— 
Alfred Vondermuhll 
James H. Schmelzel 
C. B. Alexander 



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PRESIDENTS OF THE BOARD. 

FROM 1827 TO DATE. 

ELECTED 

Joel Post 1827 

RuFus Davenport 1828, 1852, 1853 

Wm. Howard . . 1830, 183 1, 1834, 1835, 1836, 1838, 1839 

Najah Taylor 1832, 1833 

Robert Buloid 1837, 1840, 1841, 1842 

Stephen Whitney . . . 1843, 1844, 1845, 1850, 1851 

James N. Cobb 1846, 1858, 1859, 1860 

Geo. Ireland . 1848, 1849 

Richard Irvin 1854, 1855 

William Scott '. . '. 1856 

Peter McMartin 1857, 1863, 1864, 1865 

Moses A. Hoppock . . . . ... . 1861 

James Barnes 1862 

Edw. H. Owen . . . 1867 

William Paton 1868 

Moses G. Baldwin 1869, 1874 

Parker Handy . . . . . , . . 1869, 1880 
Robert L. Stuart . . . 1870, 1875, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1881 

Oliver Harriman 1871 

John A. Stewart 1872, 1873 

Robert Bonner . 1876, 1883, 1884, 1887, 1891, 1892, 1895, 1896 

Henry A. Hurlbut 1882 

John S. Kennedy . . 1885, 1886, 1889, 1890, 1894, 1897 

Thomas C. Sloane . i888 

Horace E. Garth 1893 

James O. Sheldon 1898, 1899 

A. G. Agnew 1900 

Alfred Vondermuhl 1901, 1904, 1905 

Robert W. Stuart 1902 

Geo. B. Agnew 1903, 1907 

Geo. F. Vietor 1906 

James H. Schmelzel 1908 

SECRETARIES. 

HSMAN AVERILL 

RuFus L. Nevins . . 

Caleb O. Halsted 1833 

John Worthington 1844 

Thomas Hugh Smith 1849 

Robert Bliss 1874 

John W. Auchincloss 1885 



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Henry B. Barnes , . 1892 

K Francis Hyde 1896 

Francis Forbes 1898 

Edgar S. Auchincloss 1904 

TREASURERS. 

Heman Averill 

RuFUS L. Nevins 

Caleb O. Halsted 1833 

John Worthington 1844 

Thomas Hugh Smith 1849 

D. Edwin Hawley 1869 

William Sloane 1875 

John H. Mortimer 1879 

James Frazer 1883 

John R Duncan 1897 

John W. Auchincloss 1898 

William C McGibbcn 1899 

Noah C Rogers 1903 

C R. Agnew 1906 



REPORT AS TO WORK AND CONDITION OF 

VARIOUS SOCIETIES AND MISSIONS 

OF OUR CHURCH. 

In a centennial year-book it is not only necessary to 
review the past, but to give some account of existing 
activities in order that the complete record may serve 
as a starting point hereafter for future historians of the 
church. The following statements are concise and up 
to date, and have been separately prepared by members 
or officers of the various organizations whose work is 
thus presented. 

THE HOME BIBLE SCHOOL. 

If our Bible School were to be judged solely by its 
numbers it would not stand so well at present as we 
might wish. During the ten years immediately follow- 
ing the moving of the church from Nineteenth Street 
to its present location in 1875, the school was the largest 



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numerically that it has been in its history, the attendance 
ranging from 300 to 375. To the certain knowledge of 
many of the people of our church, however, the condi- 
tions which the school has to meet to-day are very dif- 
ferent from what they were in the seventies and eighties. 
As early as 1897, when Mr. H. Edwards Rowland first 
became superintendent of the school, upon the death of 
Mr. James Frazer, who had acted in that capacity for 
twenty-five years, it was noted that the average attend- 
ance had fallen to 133, while the total enrollment was 
193. Numerous methods were adopted at that time to 
build up the attendance of the school. In 1899 a lady 
visitor was employed, but though she visited over 1,200 
families in the vicinity of the church she found com- 
paratively few children available for our school, and the 
attendance was not increased. A similar effort was made 
in 1902, when about 250 families were visited, with 
about the same results. The enrollment then was 131, 
with an average attendance of about 86. This past year 
the enrollment, including officers and the Men's Bible 
Class as was done in previous years, was 249, with an 
average attendance of about 107. A careful examina- 
tion of the causes of the decrease shows that, as com- 
pared with former years, there are less children in the 
congregation, and fewer who live near enough to the 
church to conveniently attend the Bible School. It is 
safe to say, however, that the school is serving com- 
paratively as large a proportion of the available children 
of our congregation as in previous years. 

Numbers alone, however, are not the sole nor even 
the best test. It is the work which is and has been ac- 
complished by the school that brings us encouragement. 
"Quality not quantity" is our motto. The spirit of in- 
tense earnestness, of unselfish devotion and of tireless 
effort on the part of the teachers is worthy of special 
note. It is often commented upon by those who come 
in contact with the school. Every Sunday morning dur- 



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ing the session the teachers meet together in the min- 
ister's room for a short prayer meeting before the school 
opens at 9 130, and it is there that the warm pulse of the 
school may be felt. This spirit necessarily finds its 
counterpart in the work which is accomplished by the 
scholars themselves. As a general rule, they are deeply 
interested and do a very considerable amount of work 
at home. 

Although monthly teachers* meetings were begun in 
1899, they do not seem to have been regularly kept up 
until Rev. Geo. H. Trull, the then Assistant Minister of 
our church, became the Superintendent in 1903. The 
same year the school was moved from the old Sunday- 
school room down to the lecture room on the ground 
floor and the name ''Bible School" was substituted for 
"Sunday School." The most important development of 
recent years, however, has been the adoption of a course 
of graded supplemental work in systematic Bible study. 
This course, which was prepared by Mr. Trull, was 
formally approved by the Session October 12th, 1905, 
and adopted by the teachers October 15th, 1905. Some 
of the courses were used by the School in 1904. It is 
the purpose of this course to furnish systematic training 
in such subjects as should be familiar to every intelligent 
Christian. It was felt that this could not be accomplished 
by the use of the International Lessons alone. The 
school is graded into Beginners, Primary, Junior, Inter- 
mediate and Senior Departments. Fifteen minutes each 
Sunday are devoted to this supplemental work and thirty 
minutes to the study of the International Lesson. We 
thus use a combination of the two systems. In the Be- 
ginners' Department the lessons arranged by the Inter- 
national Lesson Committee are used. In the Primary 
Department the supplemental work consists entirely of 
memorizing important scripture texts and hymns. The 
work for the other grades is as follows : 



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Junior Department. 

1st year — The Books of the Bible. 

2nd year — Bible Geography. 

3rd year — Old Testament History. 

4th year — New Testament History. 
Intermediate Department. 

1st year — The Bible: Its Origin and Contents. 

2nd year — Bible History. 

3rd year — God's Plan of Redemption. 

4th year — Church History. 
Senior Department. 

1st year — Presbyterianism. 

2nd year — Bible Doctrines. 

3rd year — Bible Ceremonials and Customs. 

The memorizing of the catechism and certain impor- 
tant hymns is also distributed through the four years of 
the Junior Department. The text book for the fourth 
year of the Intermediate Department, entitled "A Short 
Course in Bible History," was prepared by one of the 
teachers, and has been used not only by our own but by 
other schools. One of the most important features of 
the course is the study of missions. Ten Sundays of 
each year are set aside for the study of missions in the 
fifteen minute supplemental work period. The first mis- 
sionary committee was appointed December 6th, 1903, 
and consisted of Miss Eleanor O. Brownell, Miss Mary 
L. Moorehead, and Miss Marie Winkhaus. The work 
of this and subsequent missionary committees has been 
most effective. Three series of text books on missions 
for junior and senior grades were edited by Mr. Trull 
in three successive years during his connection with the 
church and were used by the school. These books have 
been widely used by other schools and other denomina- 
tions. Last year a series of papers on China were pre- 
pared by the teachers for use in the classes. Missionary 
scrap-books, a missionary bulletin board, special collec- 
tions, and other devices have greatly stimulated the in- 



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terest of the school in world-wide missions. The school 
has continued its yearly contribution of $250 to the sup- 
port of Mr. Martin B. Lewis, who for so many years 
has been engaged in the establishment of Sunday Schools 
in the far West. The whole of the collections is de- 
voted to benevolence, the expenses of the school being 
provided for by an annual appropriation of $300 by the 
trustees of the church. 

Two important changes should be here noted. The 
Junior Missionary Society, which had been an independ- 
ent organization, was taken under the jurisdiction of the 
Bible School on April 9th, 1904. The officers of this 
organization are now annually elected by the teachers 
of the Bible School. The other change relates to the 
Men's Bible Qass. For thirty-five years, from 1871 to 
1906, Col. John J. McCook had taught a Bible Class of 
young men in the Home Sunday School. In December, 
1906, as the result of a meeting of the men of the church 
called by the pastor. Rev. J. Ross Stevenson, a more 
general Men's Bible Qass was organized. This class 
was placed under the jurisdiction of the Men's Society 
and Dr. Stevenson was its leader for the first year. In 
December, 1907, Dr. Edwin F. Hallenbeck, our Asso- 
ciate Minister, became its leader. Into this class Col. Mc- 
Cook merged his class. An effort was also made to 
merge a class of young men taught by Mr. Dwight H. 
Day, but without success, and this class has since been 
taught by Mr. Chas. F. Darlington. Thus while the 
present Men's Bible Class is technically under the juris- 
diction of the Men's Society, it is logically a part of the 
Bible School. It absorbed the oldest and one of the 
most successful classes of the main school ; its attendance 
is regularly reported, and its collections pass through the 
treasurer of the main school, and its leader regularly at- 
tends the monthly teachers' meetings. 

The school felt keenly the loss of Mr. Trull, who was 
called last year to the larger work of the Secretaryship 



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of the Sunday School Department of the Board of For- 
eign Missions. His influence in introducing a systematic 
course of study into the school, in implanting a deep 
and active interest in the great subject of missions, and 
in many others ways, will long be felt. In the fall of 
1907, in the absence of a regular superintendent, Mr. 
Henry W. Jessup, as chairman of the Session's Commit- 
tee on the Bible School, served as Superintendent for 
a while until the present acting superintendent was ap- 
pointed by the teachers. 

Just a word as to the future. A strong Sunday School 
in a church is always a healthy sign. A small, weak 
Sunday School portends a struggle for the church in the 
days to come. Here is not only where the children and 
young people of our congregation are trained in things 
spiritual, but it is here that the ties of attachment for 
the house and work of our Master are fastened around 
their young hearts. If we do not train our young people 
to love our own home church and to take an interest in 
its activities, our own home church will lose them when 
they are most needed. The great majority of the mem- 
bers of our Bible School accept the Faith and join the 
church. The great majority of the active workers in 
our church have come from the Sunday School. The 
inference is plain. But not only must the Bible School 
aim to train the children of the families of our own con- 
gregation. It must reach out after the children of avail- 
able families in our own neighborhood who are not al- 
ready connected with any church. The Fifth Avenue 
Church has a special mission, and it is a great mission. 
In no field of church activity will a given amount of 
effort be so effective in enabling us to fulfill that mission 
as in bringing the children of families, for which the 
Fifth Avenue Church is primarily responsible, into the 
Bible School and in training them up in an intelligent 
and affectionate love for the Christian Faith and for the 
Christian Church. The influence of our church in the 



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future is largely dependent upon the effectiveness of our 
work of to-day. If the Bible School fulfills its full mis- 
sion in the present there is strong hope that the church 
will fulfill its full mission in the future. The Christmas 
(1908) report shows the roll of the main school to be 
43% larger than in 1907. 

OFFICERS 
Mr. J. Ard Haughwout, Superintendent, 343 West 56th Street. 
Mr, George C. Hood, Asst. Superintendent, 7 West 55th Streets 
Mr. Alfred Geery, Treasurer, 203 West 54th Street, 
Miss Ethel Thompson, Secretary, 30 East 55th Street. 
Mrs. Alfred Geery, Pianist, 203 West 54th Street. 
Mr. Walter H. Merritt, Librarian. 

TEACHERS 
Miss Marian G. Bradford Mrs. John Sinclair 

Mrs. J. Ross Stevenson Miss Marie H. Winkhaus 

Mrs. Edwin F. Hallenbeck Miss Adele Forbes 

Mrs. James H. Schmelzel Miss Helens Magnus 

Miss S. Katherine B. Eckerson Miss Harriet Chidester 
Miss Ruth G. Winant Dr. Charles E. McPeek 

Miss Grace Brownell Mr. Charles F. Darlington 

Miss Marjorie T. Sinclair Mr. John Stewart 

Miss Ida T. Hawkins Miss Edith L, Shearer 

Mr, George C, Hood 

DUANE STREET MISSION. 

When the Fifth Avenue Church was located at Duane 
Street, the Duane Street Mission was organized, under 
the leadership of the pastor, Dr. James W. Alexander, 
for whom it was subsequently named. 

In the year 1852, when the congregation hitherto wor- 
shiping there had found it necessary, because of the rapid 
encroachment of business in down-town districts, to 
erect another building at the corner of Nineteenth Street 
and Fifth Avenue, the Mission itself for similar reasons 
was transferred to Canal Street, near Varick, where a 
splendid and extensive service was rendered. 

In 1863 it was removed to 7 and 9 King Street. As 
it had increased much during these years in strength and 



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numbers, it was decided to raze these buildings, which 
were old and greatly out of repair, and to erect the 
present chapel on their site. This was done in 1872. 

The first chapel minister was the Rev. Samuel Curtis, 
installed in 1870, who, after a successful pastorate of 
three years, resigned in order to accept a professorship 
in the Congregational Theological Seminary of Chicago. 
He was succeeded by the Rev. H. A. Davenport, who 
did a valiant service, resigning in 1878 to accept a call 
to the First Presbyterian Church of Bridgeport, Con- 
necticut. In 1880, the Rev. Hugh Pritchard was or- 
dained and installed pastor. Mr. Pritchard, who still 
remains in charge, by faithful and efficient endeavors, 
has proven a potent factor in the fruitfulness and per- 
manency of the work. 

ALEXANDER CHAPEL. 

The early records of Alexander Mission are so incom- 
plete that the precise date of its organization can only 
be conjectured as above stated. It is evident, however, 
that its semi-centennial might have been celebrated some 
years ago, from the following entry in Dr. James W. 
Alexander's Familiar Letters: "December 25th, 1855, 
three hundred and fifty urchins and urchinesses were 
present at our cake and candy fete at the Mission. Our 
two industrial schools promise well — the lower one on 
Duane Street numbers two hundred." 

Owing to the encroachments of business and the move- 
ment of the population northward, the Mission was re- 
moved in the fall of 1859 from Duane Street to a build- 
ing situated near the corner of Canal and Varick Streets, 
and in an old loft heretofore used for the storage of 
furniture the work was carried on for some years, being 
marked by steady growth and increasing usefulness. 
While the Mission was yet located on Duane Street, it 
had enlisted the sympathy and support of Mr. Thomas 
S. Adams, who for thirty years devoted much of his 



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time to visiting and gathering neglected children into 
the Sunday School. 

In 1863, owing to inadequate accommodation, and the 
need of a more central location, two frame buildings, 
situated on lots 7 and 9, King Street, were bought and 
refitted for the end designed. During its occupancy of 
these buildings, the Mission grew mightily. 

Following the advent of Dr. John Hall into the pas- 
torate of the home church, preaching services on alter- 
nate Sunday evenings became a feature of the work — 
attendance increased, workers multiplied, and many were 
added to the church on profession of faith. The need of 
a building adapted to the growing needs of the work 
became so apparent, that in 1872, through the generous 
support of Messrs. Bonner, Alexander, and Day, the 
present commodious and substantial edifice was erected. 

The first minister in charge was the Rev. Samuel Cur- 
tis, who, after three years of fruitful service, relinquished 
his pastorate for a professorship in the Congregational 
Theological Seminary, Chicago. He was succeeded by 
the Rev. Henry A. Davenport. From the records, it ap- 
pears that during his pastorate the congregation had an 
enrollment of 150, the Sunday School 450, the Industrial 
School 310, and 80 were received into the fellowship of 
the church. He resigned in 1879, having accepted a call 
to the First Presbyterian Church, Bridgeport, Conn. In 
the year 1880, the present pastor was ordained and in- 
stalled. The results attained and the work accomplished 
during his pastorate cannot fairly be estimated by the 
present membership of the chapel. Immigration has 
brought into the field a mixed and migratory popula- 
tion — churches once strong and influential have removed 
northward, while others have become extinct; scores of 
families who gave us yeoman service in the work have 
moved into the outlying districts ; foreigners are crowd- 
ing into the field who can only be reached by mission- 
aries speaking their own tongue, and the day is not very 



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remote when existing methods of chapel work will have 
to be readjusted to new conditions; yet, notwithstanding 
these drawbacks, the work up to date is full of inspira- 
tion and encouragement. The Sunday services have an 
average attendance of more than a hundred; the prayer 
meetings are edifying and energizing to church life, from 
60 to 70 in attendance; the several agencies relating to 
the young people and the children (with a total mem- 
bership of 175) are in successful operation, while at the 
last two communions 25 were added to the church. The 
number of communicants at the present time is 224, and 
membership of Sunday School is 310. 

Among those prominently identified at different peri- 
ods with work of the Sunday School might be men- 
tioned Mr. L. A. Bradley, Mr. W. A. Ferguson, Mr. N. 
A. McBride, Mr. W. A. Tucker, and Mr. Henry B. 
Barnes, Jr. ; and among those who have made for them- 
selves a record of devotion and efficiency in connection 
with the Sewing School are Mrs. S. Baker Shaufiier, 
Mrs. C. A. Remick, Mrs. Jane Thompson, Miss Maria 
E. Eckerson, Mrs. Francis Forbes, Miss Augusta A. 
Smith, and Mrs. M. L. Allison. 

A special measure of gratitude is owing to those now 
on the field, whose faithful services have contributed to 
the prosperity of the work : Mr. James Marshall Stuart, 
Mr. James A. Frame, Dr. S. F. Hallock, and Mr. 
Thomas S. Clay. 

Others deserving grateful remembrance, and who have 
gone to their reward, are Miss Jennie McKay, for twen- 
ty-five years in charge of the Young Women's Bible 
Class; Mr. Edgar S. Auchincloss, a generous supporter 
of the Mission, and Mr. William Irwin, whose services 
were an inspiration and encouragement to both pastor 
and people. 

For over half a century the Alexander Mission has 
been sowing the good seed and nurturing the precious 
grain, while sister churches have reaped and gathered in 



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the harvest, helping an exceeding great army of neg- 
lected children to unfold to noble manhood and win- 
some womanhood, training and sending forth young men 
who have attained to eminence and usefulness as judges, 
physicians, authors, and preachers of the gospel, while 
hundreds of men and women who were outside the pale 
of the church have found in its ministrations an impulse 
to holy living and an open pathway to spiritual freedom. 

THE SEVENTH AVENUE CHAPEL. 

About the year 1862 members of the Nineteenth Street 
Church, so as to extend their influence to the West Side, 
purchased land on Seventh Avenue, between Eighteenth 
and Nineteenth Streets, and erected the Seventh Avenue 
Mission, in which the young people of the Home Church 
could take part as teachers and be brought into touch 
with churchless people of the poorer district. 

October 26th, 1883, the chapel was incorporated under 
the laws of the State of New York and the following 
Board of Trustees was elected : John Paton, Thomas C. 
Sloane, Morris W. Lyon, W. L. Wakefield, John W. 
Auchincloss, William Alexander, and Francis Forbes. 
Mr. Thomas C. Sloane was elected President; John W. 
Auchincloss, Treasurer; and Francis Forbes, Secretary. 
The property was leased to the new Trustees by the 
Fifth Avenue Church at a nominal rental, and the annual 
contribution of about $3,600 was continued by the same 
church. 

Rev. W. D. Buchanan was minister at the time of the 
incorporation, and continued to preach at the Chapel 
until October, 1887, when he was succeeded by Mr. L. 
H. Davis, at a salary of $1,500 a year. Mr. Davis re- 
tired in February, 1888, and Mr. W. D. Buchanan was 
invited to resume the pastorate, which invitation he 
accepted, requesting that the salary be $2,000, at which 
sum it was fixed. 



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In May, 1889, the Seventh Avenue Chapel was organ- 
ized and incorporated as the Chalmers Presbyterian 
Church, with Rev. Mr. Buchanan as pastor, and the Fifth 
Avenue Church contributed to its support. The annual 
sum of $3,900 was for two years and three months paid 
while it worshiped in the Seventh Avenue Chapel. The 
Chalmers Church in 1892 united with the Thirteenth 
Street Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Buchanan be- 
came pastor. The Seventh Avenue property was sold for 
the sum of $30,000. The work accomplished by the 
Seventh Avenue Mission was similar in character to 
that now going on at King Street. It had its own 
pastor and admitted members on profession of faith or 
by letter. When there was a possibility of its becom- 
ing self-supporting it was aided in that direction. 

YOUNG PEOPLE'S ASSOCIATION. 
The Young People's Association owes its existence to 
two boys, James A. Hawes and William Sloane, who in 
the autumn of 1889 organized a small informal meeting 
of some of the members of the Sabbath School Class of 
Mrs. Lewis Colford Jones. This idea was approved by 
several ladies who aided in carrying the movement to 
success. It was decided to make an arrangement with 
the Men's Missionary Society (the successor of an or- 
ganization founded in 1848 by Dr. Alexander), which, 
with the waning years, had become somewhat inert. Half 
a dozen remaining members of this Society in November 
of the same year met at the residence of Mr. Fruauf, 
at which time this old missionary society, with several 
members of Mrs. Jones' class, were merged into the 
Young People's Christian Association. In this way it 
became the direct successor of the first organization of 
the kind in the country, and has therefore a longer period 
of history than any other young people's society. The 
Association grew in numbers and enthusiasm, and within 
a few months it was thought practicable to announce the 



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plan throughout the church, and it was decided to hold 
a general opening meeting for organization. The first 
regular meeting of the Association was a social one held 
at the residence of Mrs. John P. Duncan, on January 
25th, 1890. It had been called by the following ladies, 
who acted as an Advisory Board : Mrs. Henry M. Alex- 
ander, Mrs. John P. Duncan, Mrs. Granville P. Hawes, 
Mrs. Calvin S. Brice, Mrs. Edmund Coffin, Mrs. Lewis 
C. Jones, Mrs. John Sloane, Mrs. John Sinclair, Mrs. 
C. B. Alexander, Mrs. A. G. Agnew, and Mrs. David 
Magie. The occasion was a decided success, and the 
Association was then and there effected, with Mr. Will- 
iam Dulles, Jr., as President. Wilbur Fisk, James A. 
Hawes, William Sloane, and William Dulles, Jr., ex- 
officio, constituted the first Devotional Committee. The 
next meeting, held two weeks later, was religious in 
character, and similar ones have been held regularly since 
that time. Until within the last few years the social 
meetings constituted a large part of the Association's 
activities. Recently, however, it has been thought no 
longer necessary to hold such gatherings, as they had 
accomplished the purpose for which they were instituted, 
that of bringing the young people of the church to- 
gether. 

The mission work of the Association, which during the 
past years has been of such wide-reaching influence, was 
first undertaken early in the year 1891, when Messrs. 
John Sloane and John S. Kennedy leased and paid rent 
for three years of the five-story building at the corner 
of First Avenue and Sixty-third Street for the use of 
the Association. The Boys' Club was first organized, 
then the Day Nursery, the Sewing School, and Men's 
Club. 

The distinctly religious work at Sixty-third Street be- 
gan in 1892 with the Sabbath School, the sessions of 
which were held in a small one-story building on the op- 
posite corner of Sixty-third Street and First Avenue. 




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In the winter of 1 891-1892 the revision of the Consti- 
tution was effected, and also the organization of the 
Board of Workers as now constituted, in the place of 
the former joint meetings of the Officers and the Ladies* 
Advisory Committee, which until then had conducted all 
the affairs of the Association. The organization of the 
Board brought all the different branches of the mission 
work in close connection with one another and laid a 
strong working basis for future development. Mr. A. G. 
Agnew was at that time elected Treasurer, and has faith- 
fully served in that capacity ever since. About the same 
time, an arrangement was made by which a member of 
the Session of the church proper should be elected Chair- 
man of the Board for the purpose of acting as a connect- 
ing link between the two bodies. Later it became evident 
that for the best interests of the church and Association, 
all the property of the latter should be transferred to the 
trustees of the church, and that the raising of funds 
especially designated for the work carried on by the 
Young People's Association should be given up in favor 
of unrestricted contributions by all to the general funds 
of the church. The Session retained supervision over 
the election of officers and the Board of Workers, but 
allowed a liberal scope to the Association and its Board 
of Workers. 

Additional branches of the work were undertaken one 
by one, and on April the 27th, 1894, the new mission 
building constructed for the Association work was for- 
mally opened. 

In 1893 the first ordained minister, the Rev. George W. 
Mead, was called. At this time, meetings were held in 
a room on the first floor of the old building. Mr. Mead 
was succeeded the following year by Mr. John Mc- 
Dowell, former General Secretary of the Princeton Y. 
M. C. A., who also remained in charge one year. In 
1895, the Rev. Charles I. Junkin took charge of the 
work, and during his term of service did much toward 



112 Centennial Celebration of tfte 

its further organization and development. In 1897, the 
Rev. I. H. Polhemus succeeded Mr. Junkin, and by his 
efficient service aided greatly toward the present suc- 
cessful condition of the work. Owing to ill health, Mr. 
Polhemus resigned in 1901, and was followed by the 
Rev. Frank B. Everitt, during whose pastorate the work 
increased in nearly every particular, and it became evi- 
dent that it would soon be necessary to erect a regular 
church building. Steps were then taken by the Board 
of Workers to effect this end. In 1903 Mr. Everitt re- 
signed because of ill health, and was succeeded by the 
Rev. Willard F. Ottarson, under whose care the work, 
especially in its religious phase, developed most en- 
couragingly. Mr. Ottarson resigned in the early part of 
1907, to be followed in the pastorate by the Rev. A. L. 
Evans as Minister in Charge, and the Rev. Paul R. Ab- 
bott as Associate Minister. 

The John Hall Memorial Chapel was dedicated in the 
spring of 1904 with fitting ceremony before a congrega- 
tion of more than five hundred persons. The church 
building cost about $60,000, and as the two buildings 
of the Association cost in the neighborhood of $150,000, 
the Young People's Association and its Board of Work- 
ers have presented to the Trustees of the Fifth Avenue 
Church property costing approximately $210,000, free 
and clear of debt. 

During the nineteen years of its history, the Associa- 
tion has not only maintained devotional meetings at the 
Home Church, welcoming all young people to them, but 
has helped to keep alive among its members an earnest 
interest in all departments of the church work. 

Mr. Dulles, the first President of the Association, was 
succeeded in 1894 by Mr. Samuel S. Auchincloss, who 
in turn was succeeded by Mr. William Sloane. In 1898 
Mr. Sloane was followed in office by Mr. James A. 
Hawes, his fellow founder in the work. In 1900 Mr. 
George B. Agnew was elected President, and in 1901 



jFiftf) atjenue pre06pterian Cfturcl) 113 

Mr. Thomas S. Clay. Mr. Clay held the office for one 
year, and was followed by Mr. H. R. Danner, who 
served two years. He was succeeded by Mr. John L. 
Rogers, who held the office for one year, and whose un- 
timely death was a great loss not only to the Association 
but to the entire church. Mr. Dwight H. Day was 
elected President in 1905, and Mr. James A. Edwards, 
who succeeded him in 1906. 

The institutional work of the Association as at present 
maintained includes the following departments : A Men's 
Qub, a Boys' Club, a Girls' Club, a Gymnasium, a Sew- 
ing School, a Day Nursery, and Fresh Air Work. 

The Association has recently become incorporated un- 
der the laws of the State of New York, in order to better 
carry out the varied religious, institutional and social 
lines of work in which it is engaged. 

OFFICERS 

Mr. Russell S. Tucker, President. 

Mr. Alfred E. Vondermuhl, First Vice-President. 

Mr. Lindon W. Bates, Jr., Second Vice-President. 

Miss Katherine McCook, Secretary. 

Mr. J. Roy Robbins, Treasurer. 

Sunday School .... Mr. F. A. Wallis 
Religious Work .... Mr. Edwin J. Gillies 
Sewing School . . . Miss Amy Lea Duncan 

Boys' Club Mr, Corwin Black 

Girls' Club .... Miss Emily L. Charles 

Men's Club Mr. Chas. W. Barnes 

Gymnasium .... Mr. William F. Irwin 

Relief Mrs. John Sinclair 

Day Nursery . . . . . Mrs. Geo. F. Vietor 

House Miss Ethel Thompson 

Entertainment .... Mrs. DeWitt C Blair 

Property Mr. Hugh Getty 

Finance Mr. James A. Edwards 



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THE WORK AT THE JOHN HALL MEMORIAL 
CHAPEL AND ASSOCIATION HOUSE. 

The aim is religious, the method institutional. A place 
and activities are provided for the development of body, 
mind and spirit under the best influences. 

An ample gymnasium with bathing facilities and under 
competent instructors is a constant attraction. This is 
for members of the three clubs. 

The Men^s Club is a self-governing, elective body of 

nearly one hundred members. They have comfortable 
rooms for social intercourse, reading, music, bowling, 
and other amusements. 

The Boys' Club is divided into sub-clubs. These have 
as pursuits debating, amateur theatricals, astronomy, 
government, geography, printing, basket-ball, etc. A 
Cadet Corps is very successful. 

The Girls' Club offers cooking, dressmaking, milli- 
nery and literary classes. 

The Sewing School, numbering over four hundred 
girls in three departments, is manned by more than fifty 
efficient teachers, and gives a thorough course of in- 
struction. 

The House contains a Penny Provident Bank, a 
Branch of the New York Public Library, free baths, and 
provides a free Lecture Course. 

A most satisfactory agent of charity is the Sunbeam 
Day Nursery. From fifty to sixty children are cared for 
daily. A Kindergarten is connected with the Nursery. 

The work draws extensively from Bohemian, German 
and Italian nationalities. These are largely in the Sun- 
day School, which numbers over one thousand. Services 
are held for Italian speaking people three times each 
week. Sunday sees the regular church services. 

Summer outings for four hundred and fifty children 
are provided. Mothers are sent to the country, young 
people to Northfield. 



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jFiftt) atjenue preslipterian Cfjurcft 115 

The aim is to reach all classes in some way, to min- 
ister to the people from the cradle to the grave. 

Rev. Albert L. Evans, 

Rev. Paul R. Abbott, 

Ministers in Charge. 

Charles F. Darlington, 
President Board of Workers. 

James Anderson Hawes, 
Secretary Board of Workers. 

THE JUNIOR MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 

Twenty-two years ago the need was felt for an organi- 
zation for the boys and girls of the Fifth Avenue Pres- 
byterian Church. Its aim to be their own growth in 
grace, the opportunity for helping those less fortunate 
than themselves to whom the glad news of Jesus and His 
love had never come, and, thirdly, to promote a friendly 
spirit among the children of the church. 

With this threefold end in view, the King's Children 
Mission Band was organized in November, 1886, and 
continued for twelve years. Meetings were held on 
alternate Saturdays from November to May, these meet- 
ings being of a missionary character. The Band sup- 
ported scholarship pupils in several mission schools, sent 
Christmas boxes to two Home Missionary Institutions 
each year, and paid for a large number of Christmas 
dinners for poor families in the city. 

From 1898 to 1900 there was no Society for the chil- 
dren, but in 1900 the King's Children Mission Band re- 
organized, changing its name to the Children's Mission- 
ary Society, which name was changed in 1901 to the 
Junior Missionary Society. This was undertaken by 
members of the Society for benevolent and mission- 
ary purposes, and the expenses of administration de- 
volved upon an advisory committee then in charge of 
the Society. 



ii6 Centennial Celefitatian of tfte 

It might be well to stop here to give an idea of the 
character of this Society and its meetings. 

The Society is composed of boys and girls of the 
church between the ages of six and sixteen years. It is 
controlled by six officers and three chairmen of commit- 
tees. The officers are a President, Vice-President, a Sec- 
retary, Treasurer, a Magazine Secretary, and Treasurer 
and Secretary of the Little Light Bearers, a branch of 
the Junior Missionary Society for children under six 
years of age, who, by payment of an annual subscription 
and "mite boxes," contribute to the cause of missions. 
The officers are nominated by the Society and elected 
with the approval of the Sunday School under whose 
jurisdiction the Junior Missionary Society has been since 
1904. 

The meetings of the Society are held twice a month, 
and addressed by missionaries or persons qualified to 
speak on missionary subjects. Occasional social meet- 
ings are held. 

In 1903 a small missionary library was donated to the 
Society, and its eighteen books have been read many 
times by its members. Later a curio cabinet was added, 
but discontinued because we had no place to keep the 
curios. 

In 1905 it was decided to study one Home and one 
Foreign Mission subject each year, and since then Japan, 
Africa, India and China have been the Foreign, and the 
Indians, the immigrants and Mexicans the Home Mis- 
sionary topics. 

Two or three years ago the Society was divided into 
two sections, graded according to age, and manual work 
meetings held alternating with the regular missionary 
address meetings. 

In 1 907- 1 908 the Society was again divided and its 
name changed to "The Boys' and Girls' Missionary 
Clubs." The meetings of the boys and the girls were 
held at different times, save for the social meetings when 



jfiftfi atjcnue pte06ptenan C&urcf) 117 

the two met together. This plan was not found prac- 
tical, and in April, 1908, the Society adopted again their 
former name, Junior Missionary Society, and will hold 
their first meeting in November, under the following 
officers : 

President, Miss Elizabeth Pitkin ; Vice-President, Mrs. 
Henry B. Britton; Secretary, Miss Sylvia DeMurias; 
Treasurer, Miss Isabelle A. Murtland; Magazine Secre- 
tary, Master Philip Jessup; Secretary and Treasurer of 
"Little Light Bearers," Miss Caroline Auchincloss. 

YOUNG WOMEN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 

This Society was organized on November 30th, 1883, 
under the name of The Young Ladies' Branch of Home 
and Foreign Missions. The first President was Miss 
Julia J. Stimson, who held the office until 1893, when 
Mrs. William J. Schieffelin took her place. 

Since the resignation of Mrs. Schieffelin, in 1899, three 
ladies have held the office of President — Miss Clara R. 
Bradford, Miss Jeanie B. Duncan, and Miss Marie H. 
Winkhaus. 

The average membership during the twenty-five years 
of the life of the Society has been 84. 

The Society has always been equally interested in 
home and foreign missions. Six regular monthly meet- 
ings are held each year, three of which are devoted to 
the consideration and study of foreign missions and 
three to home missions. 

In 1895 a new constitution was adopted, and the name 
of the society was changed to the Young Women's Mis- 
sionary Society. The number of officers has varied from 
time to time, but since the adoption of the last constitu- 
tion, in 1903, there have been six officers. Those hold- 
ing office at the present time are: 

President— Miss Marie H. Winkhaus. 

Vice-Presidents — Miss Amy L. Duncan and Miss Ethel 
Thompson. 



ii8 Centennial Celeftration of tfie 

Recording Secretary — Miss Emily L. Charles. 

Corresponding Secretary — Mrs. George E. Duns- 
combe. 

Treasurer — Mrs. Frederick A. Wallis. 

The work of the Society has always been carried on 
through the voluntary annual subscriptions of the mem- 
bers. For many years a Bible reader was supported in 
India and a lady missionary in China, and in our home 
land a number of scholarships were held. 

At the present time the Young Women's Missionary 
Society pays the salary of Miss Florence Stephenson, 
principal of the Home Industrial School, Asheville, N. 
C, and has one scholarship at Wasatch Academy, Mt. 
Pleasant, Utah ; one at Industrial Training School, Sitka, 
Alaska ; one at Indian Training School, Tucson, Arizona ; 
one at Goodwill Mission, Sissiton Agency, South Dakota ; 
and two at Scotia Seminary, Concord, North Carolina; 
also a special scholarship at Allison School, Santa Fe, 
New Mexico. 

On the foreign field it pays the salary of Miss Reubena 
Cuthbertson, a missionary and trained nurse at Funnka- 
bad Mission, Fategark, India. 

THE MEN'S SOCIETY. 

The Men's Society is the present form into which de- 
veloped the Young Men's Social and Benevolent Society 
of the Duane Street Church and Congregation, which 
was organized Sabbath evening, March 27, 1842, with 
a brief constitution, which was, however, in 1845, ^^" 
placed by a preamble and constitution of which the origi- 
nal, in the handwriting of James W. Alexander, is said 
to have been the pattern on which the constitution of 
the Young Men's Christian Association in this country 
was established. It is interesting to note in the min- 
utes of this society in the year of its organization that 
it received overtures from the Ladies' Foreign Evan- 
gelical Society of the church with a view to combining 



jFiftl) atjenue pte0liptenan Cfturcft 119 

in the support of an Evangelist in France. The annual 
reports of the society make most interesting reading, and 
their monthly meeting has a decided devotional as well 
as social tone, and many phases of church work and of 
Bible study were discussed by the members. The late 
Charles Scribner was for a time its Secretary, and short- 
ly after the war the society undertook the management 
and the raising of money for the mission schools of the 
church, which at that time were on Eighteenth Street 
and Seventh Avenue. The Society fell on sleep for a 
time in the late seventies. The activity in mission work 
which the society had manifested was taken up by the 
Young People's Association some eight or ten years 
later, while the social and devotional side of its work 
strictly among the men was revived at the time of its 
reorganization after Dr. Stevenson's installation. The 
society has held important and interesting public meet- 
ings in the church parlors frequently during each year, 
and has organized and maintained with the assistance 
of the pastor and of his associate a men's Bible class on 
Sunday mornings. 

In 1882, while the Men's Society was at a low ebb, 
several of the younger men felt the need of reviving the 
work and were instrumental in starting the Young Peo- 
ple's Association. The names of Thomas C. Sloane, 
Henry L. Smith, and William Dulles may be mentioned. 

The Young People's Association took up the work 
of missions and erected the Sixty-third Street building, 
where now a large religious and institutional work is 
done. 

When Dr. J. Ross Stevenson began his pastorate — 
1903 — he foresaw the value of the Men's Society as 
an auxiliary in the work of the Church, and succeeded 
in reviving it. Nearly all of the men of the Church 
and Congregation are members, and monthly meetings 
are held in the chapel during the winter and spring, 
with a dinner at the close of the season. Speakers of 



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note are present by invitation, and timely topics are 
considered, such as the Russian Revolution, by Abram 
Cahan ; the Labrador Mission, by Dr. Wm. F. Grenfell ; 
the Alaska Mission, by Ex-Gov. Brady ; the Presbyterian 
Brotherhood, by Ralph Connor. 

OFFICERS, 1908-9. 

Warner M. Van Norden, President. 

Charles W. Barnes, Vice-President, 

Dr. Andrew J. Perry, Secretary, 

John Nicholson, Treasurer. 

Presidents of the Society from the beginning are: 

H. G. Deforest George H. Petrie 

J. H. Davis Robt. Mc Carter, Jr. 

R. P. Harris, M.D. H. C. Van Vorst 

J. A. Stewart James Fraser 

Robert Bliss John S. Kennedy 

William L. Skidmore John Paton 

RoBT. McCartee, Jr. John J. McCook 

C. R. Agnew, M.D. John Sinclair 

John Stevens, Jr. L. J. Armstrong 

Horace J. Fairchild Henry W. Jessup, 1905-6 

John Sloane Henry B. Barnes, 1906-8 

J. A. EwELL W. M. Van Norden, 1908 

THE SEASIDE HOME. 

Its purpose is to provide a summer outing for the 
destitute children of the missions connected with the 
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. A place that, while 
gaining physical health and enjoyment, they may have 
the great advantage of Christian family influence. 

So far as is known, this institution is the first of this 
kind established in connection with any church. Many 
others have followed. It was about the year 1888 that 
the Rev. Franklin B. D wight, who had charge of one 
of the missions, began the summer fresh air work. 

A house was rented on the Atlantic Highlands, N. J. 
A man and his wife were employed to keep the house. 
But the Rev. Mr. Dwight collected the children together 



jrmt) atjenue pre0fiptenan Cfturcfi 121 

and brought them down to the Home, and began the 
work. There were at this time three missions connected 
with the Fifth Avenue Church — Fourteenth Street Mis- 
sion, Seventh Avenue Mission, King Street Mission. 

Members of the Session and others soon came for- 
ward to estabHsh and encourage the work. The names 
of the late John Paton, John Sloane, Malcolm Graham, 
Edgar S. Auchincloss, Robert Beggs, and later John P. 
Duncan will always be associated with the Seaside 
Home. Their liberality made possible the new site at 
Branch Port in 1891. Six acres were purchased, with a 
fine house, orchard, garden, and lawn. The situation is 
perfect. Directly on the Shrewsbury River, which fur- 
nishes fine bathing, fishing and boating, it is near enough 
to the ocean to enjoy the cool breezes. A two hours' sail 
brings ninety children down on the "Patton Line." They 
have ten days' outing, and as they return another com- 
pany comes. Five companies of ninety children can be 
accommodated, making in all four hundred and fifty 
children during the two months that the Home is open. 
The Home was kept open for two weeks longer than 
usual, on September 23, after the children had gone. 
The boys' brigade, numbering twenty-five, with their 
captain and one of the Missionaries, spent a week at 
the Home. The boys are hard-working boys, and sel- 
dom have a holiday. They were a fine set of fellows 
and had a thoroughly good time. After they left, a 
company of twenty-two mothers came for a week's rest 
and enjoyment, bringing their babies and children who 
they could not leave behind. It was indeed delightful 
to see how they enjoyed it. Good Mrs. Phillips, from 
Sixty-third Street, came with them. 

It is hoped that the Home can be more and more used 
for those who need it. 

After the opening of the Branchport Home, the work 
made wonderful advance and improvement, chiefly 
through the personal interest and earnest work of Mr.. 



122 Centennial Celeftration of tfte 

and Mrs. John P. Duncan, and to them chiefly the Home 
owes the prosperity of to-day. 

The chapel and girls' dormitory was erected in 1896, 
by Mr. John P. Duncan. The chapel was dedicated in 
July, 1896. Rev. Maitland Alexander, then pastor of the 
Long Branch Presbyterian Church, conducted the ser- 
vice, which was most interesting. One hundred children 
and a number of neighbors and those interested were 
present. 

So the Home entered on a new era of prosperity and 
usefulness. 

Mr. Duncan established the religious services, to which 
he gave personal supervision. Morning and evening 
prayer, a Sunday School on Sunday morning, were con- 
ducted by the Matron and her assistants. 

The four o'clock service on Sunday afternoon was 
conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Duncan and their daughters. 
They came over from their Sea Bright home every Sun- 
day afternoon. 

Mr. Duncan secured, through Mr. William Campbell, 
preaching from clergymen from the Churches at Long 
Branch, and paid for these pulpit supplies. People 
from the neighborhood were invited to attend these 
services, which they seemed glad to do. Since the death 
of Mr. Duncan, Mrs. Duncan most generously carries on 
this work. Each child that comes to the Home is pre- 
sented by Mrs. Duncan with a Bible. 

In 1896 a Ladies' Auxiliary was formed in the in- 
terest of the Sea Side Home. There are seventy-five 
members, each giving an annual subscription, the whole 
amounting to $1,700. This sum, in addition to the an- 
nual collection in the church and some additional dona- 
tions, has met the current expenses of the Home. The 
cost of the maintenance is $3,000. 







SUNBEAM DAY NURSERY 

ERECTED 1894 



jfift!) avenue Pre06pterian (HWub 123 

The administration of the Home: 

BOARD OF TRUSTEES 

William Campbell, Chairman 
Edwin J. Gillies, Treasurer 
Hugh Getty, Treasurer 
EwEN McIntyre Geo. F. Vietor 

S. S. AucHiNCLoss John J. McCook 

LADIES' AUXILIARY COMMITTEE 

Mrs. H. M. Alexander, Chairman 

Mrs. G. S. Vietor, Secretary 
Miss McIntyre, Assistant Secretary 
Mrs. John P. Duncan, Treasurer 

Mrs. Logan C. Murray Mrs. H. S. Wilson 

Mrs. Rudolph Erboloh Mrs. Frederick Dwight 

Mrs. Ewen McIntyre Mrs. Carl Baker 

Mrs. C. S. Baylis 

THE LADIES' AUXILIARY OF THE BOARDS OF 
HOME AND FOREIGN MISSIONS. 

The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Boards of Home and 
Foreign Missions, which has become one of the powerful 
and efficient agencies of this Church, though started at a 
late period of its history and under the fear which an 
untried organization would naturally occasion, has vin- 
dicated the wisdom and confidence of its founders, as 
shown in the splendid record of its benevolence and 
labor. Some opposed the formation of the society, lest 
it might divert funds from the regular collections, but 
when Mrs. Theodore Cuyler came from Philadelphia, 
where she had been a member of Woman's Board of 
Foreign Missions, she, with others anxious to do this 
work, overcame these fears, and the society was started 
on a tentative basis. But it soon passed the experi- 
mental stage. 

The first meeting was held in December, 1883. Mrs. 
Theodore Cuyler presiding, and at a subsequent meet- 



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ing the constitution was formulated, and the following; 
officers elected members of the Executive Committee: 

President, 

Mrs. Theodore Cuyler, 

Vice-President, 

Mrs. Lewis C. Jones. 

Secretary for Home Missions, 

Mrs. Henry Day. 

Secretary for Foreign Missions, 

Miss Sheldon (Mrs. A. H. Smith) 

Treasurer for Home Missions, 

Miss Julia Baker (Mrs. A. F. Schauffler) 

Treasurer for Foreign Missions, 

Mrs. a. Gifford Agnew. 

For nine years Mrs. Cuyler served the Society with 
untiring zeal and devotion, until her death, in 1892, 
when Mrs. Theodore Weston was chosen to succeed her, 
under whose wise and able administration the Auxiliary 
endeavors by prayer, contributions and the spread of 
information to advance the work of Home and Foreign 
Missions. 

The Society sustained a great loss in the death of 
Mrs. Agnew, who for fifteen years, from the organiza- 
tion of the Auxiliary until within a year of her death, 
so faithfully discharged the duties of treasurer. She 
left to her fellow laborers a bright example in her will- 
ing service, her generosity and her devotion to the cause 
of missions. 

The total of annual subscriptions and special donations 
amounts to $229,189, of which $145,046 has been paid 
to the treasurer of the Woman's Executive Committee of 
Home Missions and $84,143 to the treasurer of the 
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presby- 
terian Church. 

The work of this society has not been confined to a 
few objects, nor within narrow limits. It has included 
large gifts to the General Fund, aided in the erection of 
churches, chapels, schools and hospitals both at home and 



jTifti) atoenue pre^&pterian Ct)urcj) 125 

abroad. Among which may be mentioned the assistance 
given in the building of the Native Church at Yokohama, 
Japan, a Chapel in Guatemala, the large interest it has 
in the Sara Seward Hospital, Allahabad, and in the work 
at Hamadan, Persia. 

The missionary work in Alaska owes much to the 
very generous support of one of the members of the 
Society. Here hospitals and schools have been founded 
and far-reaching influences started, which promises a 
rich harvest in the future, as does the very encouraging 
work among the full-blood Cherokee Indians at Old 
Dwight Mission, and among the mountaineers of the 
South; also in the various Home Industrial Schools, 
where the endeavor is to hold the children gathered in 
for God and their country. 

The value of the boxes sent each year to needy Home 
Missionaries can hardly be estimated. These boxes sup- 
plement meager salaries and often relieve cases of dis- 
tress and sore need. An average of six has been sent 
annually. 

One of the newer features of the work has been the 
formation of the Hospitality Committee. This Com- 
mittee makes from fifty to seventy-five visits during the 
season on strangers, the sick and sorrowing, besides 
sending notes and flowers. 

The Society closes the twenty-fifth year of its life with 
thankfulness to the Lord for the share it has been 
permitted to take in the work of this great Church. 
Inspired by the record of the past, may it go for\yard 
with new zeal and consecration in the work of the 
future. 

The Society as now organised has for its officers: 

Mrs. Theodore Weston, President, 
14 West 48th Street. 
Vice-Presiden ts : 
Mrs. C. D. Van Wagenen, Mrs. E. S. Auchincloss, 
302 West 78th Street 24 East 48th Street. 



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Mrs. J. H. Young, Mrs. J. Ross Stevenson, 

71 East 96th Street. 19 East 66th Street. 

Mrs. J. N. Eweix, Mrs. Geo. C. McMurtry, 

47 East 74th Street. 812 Fifth Avenue. 

Mrs. John Sinclair, 16 East 66th Street. 

Secretary for Home Missions. Treasurer for Home Missions. 

Mrs. E. S. Auchincloss, Mrs. A. Vondermuhl, 

24 East 48th Street. 25 West 71st Street. 

Secretary for Foreign Missions. Treasurer for Foreign Missions.. 

Miss M. G. Janeway, Miss Edith Agnew, 
441 Park Avenue. 

Committee on Literature. Box Committee. 

Miss M. Clark, Mrs. Wm. Brookfield, 

175 Madison Avenue. 516 Madison Avenue. 

Hospitality Committee. Committee on Missionary Corresp'ce.. 

Mrs. a. H. Smith, Mrs. S. B. Brownell, 

Geneva, N. Y. 322 West 56th Street. 

Nominating Committee. 
Mrs. John Sinclair, 16 East 66th Street. 
Hospitality Committee. 

Mrs. Andrew H. Smith, Chairman Geneva, N. Y. 

Mrs. Francis Forbes, Secretary 8 West 56 Street 

Mrs. C. p. Britton, Registrar 255 West 75th Street 

Mrs. James H. Schmelzel, Treasurer 18 West 56th Street 

* Mrs. Lewis C. Jones 707 Fifth Avenue 

Miss M. Sandford 29 West 56th Street 

* Mrs. H. Maunsell Schieffelin 665 Fifth Avenue 

Mrs. John Sinclair 16 East 66th Street 

Mrs. Russell Stebbins i West 83d Street 

* Mrs. James Talbot 7 West 57th Street 

Mrs. James H. Young 71 East 96th Street 

Mrs. James T. Murray The Buckingham 

Mrs. Alfred Vondermuhl 25 West 71st Street 

* Associate Members. 

LADIES' AUXILIARY— EVENING BRANCH. 
The Evening Branch of the Ladies* Auxiliary was 
organized in the winter of '06- '07, with a view to en- 
hsting in missionary interest and service those whose 
duties during the day would prevent their attendance 
upon the regular sessions of the Auxiliary. 



if jftj) atienue pre06ptenan Cftutcft 127 

The meetings occur once a month, and consist of de- 
votional exercises, consideration of missionary problems 
both at home and abroad, and to making garments for 
the destitute immigrants at Ellis Island. The President 
of the Society is Miss Harriet Chichester. 

THE PRINCETON SEMINARY ASSOCIATION. 

Mrs. Alexander prepared the following account of this 
society : 

This is the oldest benevolent society of this Church. 
It was organized in 1810, while the congregation met in 
Cedar Street, and the Rev. Dr. Romeyn was its pastor. 

The object of the Association was to aid young men 
who were studying for the ministry. These were in 
many instances sons of ministers and missionaries. It 
is often by great self-denial that these fathers give an 
education to their sons. The help given by this Asso- 
ciation has been essential to the ordinary comforts of 
the students. 

The work originated with a band of ladies — a "Dorcas 
Society" — who met at the different houses of its mem- 
bers to make garments. Boxes of clothing were sent 
every year and a piece of black broadcloth given, so 
that each member of the graduating class should have 
a preaching suit. The late Mrs. William Walker was 
President at this time, and, with the assistance of Mrs. 
Edwards Hall, through much hard work and great dis- 
couragements, held the Association together. 

During the next thirty years the association changed 
and, in some respects, enlarged and extended its work 
and methods of giving. 

Owing to Mrs. William Walker's ill health and the 
infirmities of age, she was obliged to resign her position 
as President, and Mrs. Henry M. Alexander was ap- 
pointed in her place. There was fresh organization and 
a more formal arrangement. 



128 Centennial Celetsration of ti)e 

Officers were appointed: Mrs. H. M. Alexander, 
President; Mrs. Edwards Hall, Vice-President; Mrs. 
James H. Young, Treasurer; Mrs. A. G. Agnew, Sec- 
retary. Fifty-four members were added to the Associa- 
tion and the number of subscriptions greatly increased. 

The gifts of clothing were discontinued, and work was 
undertaken to improve the condition of the students' 
rooms in the dormitories. Seventy-eight rooms in one 
dormitory and sixty in another were done over and re- 
furnished. Two large parlors were furnished for the 
use and comfort of the students. New baths and fresh 
plumbing were provided, and many other things to im- 
prove the dormitories. 

A missionary library was furnished. Three scholar- 
ships were taken. The good done in a quiet way by 
this Association can hardly be estimated in its moral 
effect upon the students. 

The time came when it was thought best to incor- 
porate this Society, which was formally and legally done 
in December, 1892. 

A legacy of $3,37649 was given to the Princeton 
Seminary Association by Mary A. Monahan. This was 
deposited by the Association and $1,000 paid to the 
Rev. William M. Paxton, D. D. The entire funds of 
the society were put in a loan relief fund for the benefit 
of the students to be loaned in small sums to meet their 
immediate needs. This fund was also put in the care 
of Prof. William M. Paxton, D. D., and at his death 
into the hands of the Rev. Dr. Purves. It is at this time 
in the charge of Prof. Wilson. 

The time had come when the Ladies' Princeton As- 
sociation (as such) laid down its work and died a tri- 
umphant death, after a life of eighty years, having fin- 
ished the work which God had given it to do. 

From the early days of the Church the interest of the 
congregation has been centered in Princeton Seminary. 
Of its pastors there have been those who have come 



JFiftI) atjenue pre^figterian Cftutcf) 129 

from the seminary^s professional chairs. From its pul- 
pit and pastorate the Church has in turn given men to 
teach in Princeton. It is fitting, for this reason, that 
there should be not only this link of interest between 
the oldest seminary and the most important church of 
our great denomination, as well because the teaching of 
the Fifth Avenue Church from its pulpit and the teach- 
ings of the seminary by its professors have been iden- 
tical with and loyal to the standards of the denomination 
to which they belong. 

CHINESE SUNDAY SCHOOL. 

The Chinese Sunday School was opened by Rev. Dr. 
John Hall, Sunday evening, March 22, 1885, in the 
Lecture Room of the Church, with eighty-five Chinese, 
twenty-two teachers, and many visitors. 

The following October rooms were rented at 20 West 
Fifty-ninth Street, and later at 9 East Fifty-ninth Street, 
where the School has convened until now. On October 
18, 1908, the School held its first session in the new 
and permanent home, "The Chinese Mission House of 
New York," 223 and 225 East Thirty-first Street. 

Many hundreds of Chinese have thus come under 
Christian influence. Thirty-nine have been received into 
the fellowship of our church, where most of them were 
baptized. Our School is known as ''The Home of the 
Chu Family," because most of its Chinese belong to that 
royal Clan of Ha Lo', Sun Ui, Canton Province. 

Fourteen of our Communicants and other Christian 
Chinese, and many who have attended the school, have 
returned to remain in China. These have taught and 
preached in their market town. Goo Jeng, where this 
year has been dedicated a new, commodious, self-sup- 
porting church. At Ha Lo' will soon be laid the corner- 
stone ''of the Church in our village to commemorate the 
beautiful name of our beloved Dr. John Hall." 

As a tribute of grateful love to their glorified Pastor, 



I30 Centennial Celefiration of tfte 

the Chinese and their friends gave "The Dr. John Hall 
Memorial Scholarship, in perpetuity," to The Christian 
College. 

Our Christians at home, with the help of our school 
here, organized and maintain a flourishing Day School 
and Sunday Bible School for Women and Girls. The 
Girls' School, taught by Miss Chu Shu Fay, is strong 
in Christian influence and full of promise. 

Our Christians there have organized a Y. M. C. A., 
and every evening they gather the youth of the village, 
teaching them English and mathematics, closing with a 
Gospel service. We have also supported a Bible Woman 
in Ha Lo'. 

Prayer, the Christian's vital breath, has been the life 
of our School. The Chinese Prayer Meetings and Ser- 
vice of Song, held before school, are Gospel Meetings, 
and a means of training our Christians for Evangelistic 
work. The Teachers' Prayer Meetings, led by the Su- 
perintendent, have been full of spiritual power. 

Mr. William Campbell was appointed in charge of the 
Chinese work, October, 1885. Since then he has con- 
ducted the School with untiring devotion, in the spirit 
of the Master. The workers have been apt to teach, 
prayerful, zealous for souls. The School is grateful to 
God for the cordial sympathy and support of pastors 
and people, and for the new facilities for greater useful- 
ness. 

The Chinese Sunday School, begun and extended by 
the Lord, will, by His grace, continue to save souls 
until it has accomplished its part, in His plan of eternal 
love, for the redemption of the world, "and to His name 
be the praise." 

(Miss) Charlotte C. Hall, Assistant Supt. 

Committee of Session. 

Mr. William Campbell, Supt. 

Mr. James Talcott Mr. James A. Frame 



jFiftl) atienue Pre0lipterian Ct)urc|) 131 


Teachers. 


Miss Hf.tf.n S. Bergmann 


Mrs. Henry W. Bookstaver 


Miss Julia R. Congdon 


Miss Charlotte S. Fruauf 


Miss Margaret Cooper 


Mr. George L. Fruauf 


Mrs. S. W. Lincoln 


Mr. James A. Frame 


Mr. Morris Schiffert 


Miss Grace Meeker 


Mrs. Morris Schiffert 


Mrs. Wilbur McBride 


Mr. Edward J. Brown 


Miss Florence Thurber 


Miss Florence White 


Miss C. C Hall 


Missionary Visitor, Mrs. 


Jessie G. Schiffert. 


Communicants. 


Mr. Chu Hom f 


Mr. Chu Sing 


Mr. Chu F,kn CnoRf 


Mr. Chu Soo Gyp. 


Mr. Chu Ball* 


Mr. Chu Soo Yon 


Mr. Lem Ling FoNcf 


Mr. Chu Ah Saam f 


Mr. Chu Ah Chew f 


Mr. Choy Ching 


Mr. Chu B. Wong 


Mr. Chu Mow-j- 


Mr. Chu B. LuNof 


Mr. Chu Bing Fax 


Mr. Chu Chee 


Mr. Chu DoNf 


Mr. Chu Gain 


Mr. Chu FooKf 


Mr. Chu Foon Ki 


Mr. Chu Ho mm 


Mr. Chu Fung 


Mr. Chu Hong Haw 


Mr. Chu YENf 


Mr. Chu Hong Yu f 


Mr. Lem Doo 


Mr. Chu Jim f 


(Henry Lum) 


Mr. Jung Luke* 


Mr Chu M. Seung 


Mr. Chu Lit 


Mr. Chu Kew Hong* 


Mr. Ng Band Sheck 


Mr. Chu Nim f 


Mr. Nie Woo Soon 


Mr. Chu Poo Wah 


Mr. Chu Faie Loong 


Mr. Chu Sam Toy 


Mr. Chu Kee 


Mr. Chu Shir 


* Deceased. 


Mr. Chu S. YEONcf 


fin China, 



WOMAN'S EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY. 

This helpful woman's work for woman has been car- 
ried on by the ladies of the congregation for nearly 
half a century. The records go back to 1867. Mrs. 
Edwards Hall, of the Distributing Committee, has given 
out to date 52,156 garments. Between eighty and one 
hundred women are thus employed each season. Miss 



132 Centennial Cele&ration of tfte 

Harriet Edwards has been the Almoner of the Lord's 
spiritual bounty to the women while they wait for their 
work. 

The bond of Christian sympathy and mutual helpful- 
ness, expressed in many kindly and practical ways, make 
these Tuesday mornings at the Church such as savor 
of the perfume of the breaking of the Alabaster box. 

OFFICERS 

Mrs. William Irwin, First Directress. 

Mrs. H. Edwards Rowland, Second Directress. 

Mrs. Richard J. Thompson, Third Directress. 

Mrs. Gustav Bauman, Treasurer. 

Mrs. Charlotte C. Hall, Secretary. 

THE LOAN RELIEF ASSOCIATION. 

This Society was incorporated Nov. 6, 1878. It grew 
out of the needs of Mrs. Paddock's (nee Miss Sarah 
Sands) and Miss Avery's, of blessed memory, large 
Sabbath evening Bible Class at The Seventh Avenue 
Mission. It has created a system of assisting the worthy 
poor and needy. It was the first institution of the kind 
in this great Union. Information was constantly sought 
and Loan Relief Associations organized in many places, 
even across the Atlantic. Relief by loans is one of the 
best ways to be charitable, for it helps the worthy poor 
to become self-sustaining. Dr. John Hall considered it 
one of the best and wisest for Christian benevolent work 
in the Church. There were many helpful agencies con- 
nected with the Association, to meet the manifold needs 
of the poor in times of sickness and trial. 

The Loan Relief is now continued in connection with 
The Woman's Employment Society, on Tuesday morn- 
ings, under the care of Mrs. Frederick L. Bradley. 

ROMEYN CHAPEL. 
The work was inaugurated by the efforts of a number 
of Christian people connected with the Presbyterian 




ROMEYN CHAPEL 

FOURTEENTH STREET 



JfKtt) atienue pre^fipterian Cfturcl) 133 

Church who organized a Sabbath School in the spring- 
of 1858 in a loft over at blacksmith's shop at 416 East 
Fourteenth Street. During the first four years its mem- 
bership so greatly increased that it became necessary to 
secure a larger room, and permission was granted to 
move into the audience room of the public school build- 
ing on Fourteenth Street. Here the numbers grew un- 
til, in the year 1864, over eight hundred children were 
in attendance. During this period, many friends from 
neighboring churches became teachers in the school. 

The sessions were first held in a part of the city greatly 
neglected by Christian workers, and one found many dif- 
ficulties with which to combat. During the first year 
every window in the building was broken, but by the aid 
of the police, the school was continued, and, in the course 
of time the neighborhood changed for the better. The 
first superintendent was Mr. J. M. Cowperthwaite. 
After about seven years he removed from the city, and 
for one year Mr. Robert McCartee was the superin- 
tendent. In 1866, the Mission was under the care of Mr. 
Samuel D. Davis, who continued the superintendency un- 
til the year 1878, when succeeded by Mr. John Sinclair. 

In 1866, the Rev. U. G. Wenner, at the time a student 
in Union Theological Seminary, was engaged as the first 
paid visitor. Soon thereafter the people desired a church 
organization, and, with its consent, Mr. Wenner, who 
was connected with the Lutheran Synod, withdrew from' 
the school and rented the church building on Avenue B. 
and Sixth Street, and with the majority of members 
commenced services at that place; In the autumn of 
1878, the building at 240 East Fourteenth Street was 
purchased from St. George's Church, and on February 
the loth, 1879, the school removed to that place, and the 
chapel was incorporated under the title of Romeyn 
Chapel of the City of New York. The incorporators 
were Sam'l D. Davis, C. R. Agnew, Wm. Campbell, 



134 Centennial Celebration of tfte 

Ewen Mclntyre, John Sinclair, D. M. Walbridge, J. V. 
Van Santvoord, Alex. Maitland, Robert Hoe, Robt. S. 
Maitland, H. G. De Forrest. 

In the spring of 1879, the Rev. E. L. Mapes was 
called to the pastorate and superintendency of the school. 
He continued to labor there for about a year, being suc- 
ceeded in May, 1880, by the Rev. George Van Deurs, 
who was followed in January, 1883, by the Rev. Frank- 
lin Dwight, who remained in charge until February, 
1886, when he resigned and was succeded by the Rev. 
A. H. McKinney. The Rev. Thomas Attenson was 
stated supply from November 30th, 1887, to November 
1st, 1885. In February, 1889, the Rev. Herbert M. An- 
dres was called to the pastorate. He was followed in 
May, 1890, by the Rev. Thomas Douglass, who was suc- 
ceeded in 1897 by the Rev. J. P. Dawson. In the au- 
tumn of 1898, the Rev. J. Campbell Neil succeeded Mr. 
Douglass, and in May, 1900, the Rev. W. A. McKenzie 
was called to the pastorate, remaining in the charge until 
1904, when the work was merged into that of the Four- 
teenth Street Presbyterian Church. The chapel was sold, 
owing to the fact that near-by churches had planted so 
large a number of chapels in the district that opportuni- 
ties for service had become greatly curtailed, and the 
care of the people was assumed by the Fourteenth Street 
Church a few blocks away. 

The interest on the fund, or proceeds, of the sale was 
used partly to assist the Fourteenth Street Church in car- 
rying on the work and partly for our other chapels and 
schools. 

From a personal letter of S. D. Davis we extract the 
following items, showing some of the "fruit" and its 
character : 

"In the course of time, some influences of the Mission 
have incidentally come to my knowledge. The Rev. John 
G. Dyer, now a pastor of a Baptist Church in this State, 



jTiftJ) atjenue pre0l)pterian Cfiurcf) 135 

has written saying that in 1862 he attended the school. 
He was a very poor boy, living- on Avenue A. He writes 
that he has been a pastor for forty years." 

"A boy named Davis attended the school. He after- 
wards joined the army., and for a number of years was 
in active service. He afterwards became a Baptist min- 
ister. After thirty-eight years of good work, he became 
paralyzed, and is now in a home in Germantown. He 
(Rev. J. L. Davis) is said to have rendered unusual 
service." 

"Another boy, Charles Fischer, became a Methodist 
pastor of a church on Long Island. I saw him about 
fifteen years since, but do not know his address now." 



136 Centennial Celefiration of tfte 



C6e program anD (Bnttif^ts 

of tbe 

Centennial Celebration 

PREFATORY NOTE. 

The actual services of the celebration began with the 
preparatory service in the chapel on December i8, and 
continued, as shown by the program, through the Wednes- 
day evening service of December 23. 

In the sermons and addresses that follow, many fugi- 
tive facts are amberized that were omitted from the frag- 
mentary history that precedes. References to persons 
and to deeds — to great movements and philanthropies — 
identified with or related to our church contained in the 
formal addresses, are in contrast with the eloquent, ap- 
preciative or suggestive remarks made at the delightful 
social reception at Mrs. Alexander's. 

Some of these suggestions may bear fruit. Some of 
this fruit may ripen but slowly. To what extent our 
church may be "cathedralized," as one speaker suggested, 
is not clear. To what extent the new school of sartorial 
homiletics, also described by this speaker, will invade our 
theological seminaries and create a class of pulpit special- 
ists it will be interesting to observe. 

The spiritual influences of the Gipsy Smith services 
that preceded our centennial, deepened by the communion 
with which that centennial opened, together with the 
stimulating effect of the review of the past and the clarion 
call to wider ser-vice in the future, must combine to 
strengthen our church life and avert any disposition to 
reactionary indolence. 

If so, we shall be constantly and increasingly grateful 
to the 

"God of our fathers, from whose hand 
The centuries fall like grains of sand." 



iFiftJ) atienue Pre0&ptetian Cfiurcf) 137 

The addresses follow in chronological order without 
further preface or comment. 

AT THE PREPARATORY SERVICE the address 
was delivered by Edwin F. Hallenbeck, D. D., Associate 
Pastor, on the text : ''Who knoweth whether thou art come 
to the kingdom for such a time as this." — Esther IV : 4. 

One of the most fascinating incidents in Bible history, 
one of the most dramatic, one of the rarest in its lessons 
for life, is the story of this Jewish maiden who was 
brought near to the throne of Ahasuerus that she might 
turn the destinies of her people and save them from a 
cruel fate. =i^ * * 

Mordecai is laying bare Esther's obligation to God.. 
He insists that such goodness demands recognition, that 
to turn aside from its just appeal would be basest in- 
gratitude. Surely we dare not be dull to this considera- 
tion in these anniversary days. The first note to be 
struck to-night is the note of praise. One hundred years 
of Divine mercy. Five thousand Sabbaths each one of 
them rich in the favor of God. Men noble and true have 
stood in this pulpit to proclaim the unsearchable riches 
of Christ and point lost souls to the Lamb of God that 
taketh away the sin of the world. Men consecrated and 
courageous have borne before this people the vessels of 
the Lord. If it were possible to sum up the blessings of 
these years what a deluge of grace would pour in upon 
us. Who shall tell the noble aspirations that have been 
kindled, the holy impulses that have been awakened, the 
tears of contrition that have flowed from eyes that caught 
their first vision of the Saviour's face. Who shall num- 
ber the hearts that have been renewed, the lives that 
have been transformed, the homes that have been glad- 
dened with light from the throne. Where is the historian 
who can pen a record of the influences which have gone 
out from this church into the city, throughout the land 
and unto the ends of the earth. Let the doxologies be 
loosed to-night, let the hosannas of God leap from lip 



138 Centennial Celebration of tfte 

to lip as we call upon all that is within us to magnify 
the precious Name. 

But we cannot pay this obligation in words alone. The 
Psalmist's question should find a place on every tongue, 
"What shall I render unto the Lord, for all his benefits ?" 
and if we shall honestly seek to know the will of God, 
the summons of my text will force itself upon us. "Thou 
art come to the Kingdom for such a time as this." The 
past is peculiarly rich, but the past is gone. The days 
through which we have come are only the preparation 
for this day. Every event in the history of these ten 
decades has been moving in solemn procession toward 
this hour. Here is the focal point. We must find the 
meaning of the past in the opportunity of the present. 
The gifts we have received, the victories we have won, 
the lessons we have learned, the discipline we have en- 
dured, the losses we have suffered, the prayers and tears 
and sacrifices and toils all press their shining fingers upon 
the spot where we stand to-night. Listen, oh ye people 
of God, listen, as these influences of a century each takes 
to itself a voice and you will hear them say, "Thou art 
come to the Kingdom for such a time as this." * * i= 

Great problems are pressing upon us. Some of them 
great enough to threaten our national honor, some of 
them strong enough to strike at the very heart of the in- 
stitutions we cherish. The saloon goes with its vile 
traffic, dealing in heartaches and tears and human blood. 
Divorce threatens to loosen the foundation stones of 
the American home. Sabbath desecration stalks abroad 
gaining new vantage ground with every year until our 
dreams of the future are darkened with the hideous 
nightmare of a Continental Sunday. The chasm be- 
tween capital and labor has not been bridged. Multitudes 
are drifting away from the church. This is a time for 
brain power and moral muscle and spiritual gianthood. 

A paralyzing indifference has fallen upon the church. 
Her machinery is splendid, her treasury has never been 



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so full, her numbers have never been so large, her society 
has never been so select. She has all that is needed for 
her comfort. She is tempted to be at ease. This means 
to close her eyes to the vision of human distress. 

Yet this is the day of God's power. He is working 
marvels among the sons of men. The nations of the 
earth are like chessmen in His hands, He moves them 
wheresoe'er He will. He reaches from His throne, and 
opens doors for the entrance of His gospel. The forces 
of nature are revealing their secrets and offering their 
resources. In the spiritual realm, God is inspiringly 
active. He is calling His people to a richer experience. 
He is giving them glimpses of a life of power. He is 
showing them the dishonor of offering Him less than a 
whole-hearted service. He is taking possession of humble 
souls and through them working miracles of grace. By 
means of the heroism and martyrdom of His heralds, He 
is putting to shame the accursed selfishness of a worldly 
church. * * * 

These are some of the conditions we must face, and 
God has brought us as a church to this hour that we 
may help to meet them. 

We are to have part in making the church a vita 
iorce in the world. Jesus said of her : She is the salt of 
the earth, and the mission of salt is to sweeten, to 
purify. He also called her the light of the world, and the 
business of light is to shine away the darkness. The 
church should touch and beautify every relation of life. 
Its influence ought to permeate business and statecraft 
and social affairs. The church should be a guarantee 
that great moral questions in the community will be set- 
tled as they should, that great wrongs will be righted, 
that great needs will be suppHed. And each member of 
the church is to make his contribution to this vital, ener- 
gizing force. Some one has said membership in the 
Church of Christ should be a certificate of Godly char- 
acter, a certificate that will pass at its face value among 



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the sons of men. Alas, how often it has no value. Be 
sure of this : If it means little to you, it will mean little 
to others. It will count for as much as it costs, no more. 
If it stands for sacrifice and devotion to you, it will stand 
for life and blessing to the world. 

John Fisk, the historian, tells us that in the continental 
congress, after the members had signed the new constitu- 
tion, a silence like death filled the room. Now that the 
stupendous work was finished, these men, who for months 
had given to it their minds and their hearts, were over- 
whelmed with its meaning. The face of Washington 
was buried in his hands, he seemed to be engaged in 
prayer. On the back of his chair was emblazoned a half- 
sun brilliant with gilded rays. Benjamin Franklin arose 
to his feet, and pointing to the emblem said, with deep 
emotion : "During these weeks I have looked at yonder 
sun and wondered whether it was rising or setting. Now 
I know it is a rising sun.'* * * * 

God expects this church to be an irresistible soul-win- 
ning agency. Let us not be unmindful of the passion for 
souls that has flamed in many a heart in this Zion, let 
us not forget the money that has been turned into con- 
secrated manhood and womanhood and enlisted in the 
work of redemption. Let us not overlook the persistent 
zeal that is laboring to-day for the coming of the King- 
dom. * * * 

Years ago a poor English artist sat one day before his 
canvas. He was painting the picture of a lost woman. 
He became deeply absorbed in the tragedy as it grew 
upon the canvas. It was a pathetic scene ; a bleak winter 
night, darkness and tempest only broken by a flickering 
light here and there. A woman thinly clad with a babe 
pressed against her breast was wandering through the 
streets. Every door was closed against her. As he 
went on to portray the agony of that wretched soul, he 
could no longer control his feelings. Throwing down 
his pencils, he cried : "If souls are lost, how can I be 



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content with painting pictures of their distress? My 
"business is to save them." From that hour this became 
his passion. He went to Oxford, then down into the 
slums, then on into the heart of Africa. We know him 
to-day as Bishop Tucker, one of the noblest saints of his 
century. * * * 

We are overwhelmed at the thought of the possibilities 
in this work if each member of the church were dedicated 
to the task. 

Once more, God is asking us to hasten the coming re- 
vival. It is coming, for thus is it written, "I will pour 
out my spirit upon all flesh," and God's word cannot fail. 
We have seen a moving at the tops of the mulberry trees. 
Over against the horizon is a cloud about the size of a 
man's hand. O for a faith that will make these movings 
a tempest of grace. O for a voice of prayer that will 
bring the little cloud closer until it fills the sky, and pours 
its floods of blessing upon us. This is the day of our 
opportunity. We may help to bring in the morning of 
power. God is offering Himself to His People. We 
may have Him in the fullness of His might if we will. 
We can afford to lose sight of all else in our agony for 
a deep and widespread revival. We can afford to plow 
and harrow and sow in tears ; we can afford to plead and 
toil by day and by night. It is our supreme need. Every 
other need is swallowed up in this. We need leaders. 
We need money. We need pure doctrine, and pure devo- 
tion. We need a power that will keep the wheels of 
activity in motion. We need people to fill the vacajit 
places within the walls of the sanctuary ; but the need 
of needs, the blessing that will wipe out our lesser needs, 
is a deep and far-reaching experience of the quickening 
power of God. This will bring to the front leaders with 
tongues of fire and nerves of steel. This will give us a 
mastery over the problems we face. This will blot out 
theological controversies. This will loosen the purse- 
strings of the redeemed until the treasuries of the church 



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overflow, and multitudes will come pressing into the 
Kingdom like doves to their windows. * * * 

As we take our places about The Holy Table for this 
anniversary communion, a century of blessing behind us,, 
untold possibilities before us, let us consecrate our all to 
the sublime task of bringing in the Day of His Kingdom. 



MORNING SERVICE, DECEMBER 20, 11 A. M. 

Organ Prelude — First Sonata Mendelssohn 

Doxology 

Invocation 

Anthem — ''Except the Lord Build the House" Faning 

First Scripture Lesson, Psalm XLVIII 

Hymn 138 

Second Scripture Lesson, Matthew V: 1-20 

Prayer 

Hymn 418 

Offering for Chapels and Schools 

Anthem — "Round Jerusalem stand the Mountains" 

HiLLER 

Anniversary Sermon by the Pastor 

Dr. Stevenson preached from the text: 

"Holding forth the word of life."— Phil. II : 16. 

The first Protestant missionary society was the **Cor- 
poration for the Propagation of the Gospel in New Eng- 
land." It was organized by Oliver Cromwell and the 
Long Parliament, and in 1661 it adopted a very interest- 
ing seal. This seal represents a North American Indian 
holding in his left hand a large closed Bible to which he 
is pointing with his right hand, and above his head are 
written the words, "Come over and help us." To such 
an appeal the church is everywhere and always to respond. 
An appropriate seal for the true Christian church would 
be an angel of light holding in his hand the word of life 
and offering it to the generations of mankind who furnish 
the dark background, and overhead could be written the 
words, "Freely ye have received, freely give." The 



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church is not merely a sacred institution with creed, gov- 
ernment, ordinances and forms of worship. It is a body, 
a living organism, holy in character, brought into being, 
nourished and controlled by the truth of God and kept 
strong and reproduced by missionary endeavor. This 
was the Apostolic conception of the church. Every or- 
ganization of believers was expected to bear witness to 
the truth and to propagate it. Our own church has been, 
we believe, true to this conception, and may be described 
as a witness-bearing church, and on this account entitled 
to a place along with all the others throughout the world 
who hold forth the word of life. 

I. The idea of a living church is herein embodied. It 
is not a soulless corporation, but a body with faculties 
and powers, able to receive and assimilate truth and com- 
municate it to others. The church at Philippi had a per- 
sonal history, a birth, a growth, a self-conscious existence 
and a life-giving influence. This has been the experience 
of our church during the past century. 

The living word called into existence the Fifth Avenue 
Church just one hundred years ago. At that time there 
were scarcely ninety thousand people all told in this city. 
There were no steamboats nor steam ferries, and the only 
means of transportation was on horseback or by stage 
coach. The mails were slowly carried from place to 
place at frequent intervals, and the postage varied ac- 
cording to the distance, twenty-five cents for more than 
four hundred miles. There were two or three daily 
papers in the city, a larger number of weeklies, but no re- 
ligious journals at all. Though the Presbyterian Church 
had been in existence in this country for more than one 
hundred and fifty years, there were at that time about 
three hundred ministers in the whole church and 21,270 
communicants. There were but four Presbyterian 
churches in the city, though there were a goodly number 
in the vicinity, constituting a Presbytery. The total 
benevolent gifts of all these churches in the Presbytery 



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for that year amounted to $1,392. When our church was 
organized in 1808, there were twenty-six members. 
Zechariah Lewis and WiUiam Cleveland were the two 
ruling elders, and George Fitch was named the first dea- 
con. The Rev. John B. Romeyn, D. D., the son of a 
Dutch Reformed minister, and whose first parishes had 
been in the Dutch Church, was the first pastor, and served 
until his death, that is for seventeen years. From these 
simple beginnings our church has grown. 

We have had four church homes, the first at Cedar 
Street, costing a little more than forty thousand dollars ; 
the second on Duane Street; the third on the corner of 
Nineteenth Street and Fifth Avenue, and the fourth in 
-the present location. Eight ministers have served the 
^church, and the longest as well as most fruitful pastorate 
was that of Dr. Hall, from 1867 to 1898, or a term of 
thirty-one years. The church has had sixty-eight ruling 
elders and forty-three deacons ; and, while I do not know 
the exact number of trustees, there appear on the list the 
names of some of the most prominent and influential 
business men of the city. There have been enrolled in 
the church approximately ten thousand members, with a 
present total membership to-day, including those in the 
chapels, of over two thousand. 

But these cold statistics give us little idea of the amount 
of life that has been poured into the church, and has is- 
sued from it. The variety of life that has been repre- 
sented is rather surprising. Its ministers have come not 
only from across the sea, but from the North and South, 
from the East and West. Originally, its membership was 
drawn largely from New England, and for a while it was 
called the Federal Church. But two of her pastors were 
of Southern birth, and during the war she was accused 
of having some sympathy with secession. While the 
Scotch and Scotch-Irish elements have been strong in 
her life, Dutch, Swiss, German and French names appear 
on the roll, where can also be found the names of Japa- 



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nese and Chinese, though the predominating influences 
have been American. It has not been the church of any- 
one class of society, but has aimed to be a fold concerning 
which it may be said, "The rich and the poor meet to- 
gether, the Lord is the maker of them all." There has 
been a continuity of life down through three generations. 
The son of one of the charter members and first deacons, 
William Hall, is still living, Mr. H. M. Hall of Pitts- 
burg, Pennsylvania. Most of the original families have 
died out or have moved away, but there are still in the 
church the grandchildren of one of the charter members, 
Hugh Auchincloss. 

The church has passed through many vicissitudes. It 
has witnessed no less than four great national wars. It 
has seen controversy, disruption and reunion in the Pres- 
byterian Church, and at times has been depleted in num- 
bers and strength by the formation of new churches ; as, 
for example, when the University Place Church was 
founded by a colony of nearly two hundred members 
from the Duane Street Church. And yet, in the main, 
her course has been one of almost uninterrupted progress. 
There has been all along steady and substantial growth, 
the sure evidence of healthful and vigorous life. Our 
church has surely been a living witness. 

II. The Apostle expected the Philippian church to be 
Biblical, "holding forth the word of life." 

We belong to a great body of Christians called evan- 
gelical because of their belief in those fundamental truths 
of redemption which constitute a living evangel. This 
gospel of Christ, which presents him as a divine, atoning 
Saviour and a risen, living Lord, saves men from sin, 
builds them up in character, inspires them to a Christlike 
life, and gives promise of a noble, eternal destiny. The 
church which holds this word of life is sometimes called 
evangelistic, by reason of her endeavors to bring people 
under the power of this gospel, and enlist them in Chris- 
tian discipleship. It is not an evangel of abstract truth. 



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of antequated principles and unpractical theories, but a 
word of life that brings life and has to do with the rela- 
tions and activities of every-day life. After the lamented 
death of your beloved pastor, Dr. Purves, seven years 
ago, a memorial volume of his sermons was published, 
entitled "Faith and Life." In those discourses, so full 
of profound thought, practical truth and spiritual fervor, 
the gospel is proclaimed as he had verified it in his own 
experiences and as it fitted the needs of common life. 
Such preaching was characteristic of all who preceded 
him. There have come into my possession the two vol- 
umes of sermons published by Dr. Romeyn in 1816. In 
reading the preface, I was interested in learning that he 
selected these discourses to afford a specimen of the man- 
ner in which Calvinistic principles can be applied to the 
illustration and enforcement of the duties belonging to the 
various relations of life. As you peruse those discourses 
and see their application to the life of the individual, of 
the church, of the community and of the nation, you are 
convinced that the gospel was to him a real and practical 
thing. And from the beginning, this vital word entered 
into the very life of the church and by the power of the 
Spirit was the one strong pervasive influence of growth, 
efficiency and usefulness. This gospel and the sacred 
Scriptures containing it have always been dearly loved 
by our people, as the very food of the soul. 

Moreover, the Bible has been the only text book which 
our church has used down through her history. Every 
preacher and teacher of our church would stand with 
Principal Forsyth on the ground he has taken: 'The 
Bible is the one Enchiridion of the preacher still, the 
one manual of eternal life, the one page that glows as 
all life grows dark, and the one book whose wealth re- 
bukes us more the older we grow because we knew and 
loved it so late." I only wish that there were time to in- 
dicate the place which the Bible has held in this pulpit, in 
our Bible School, and in the homes of our people. And 



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our deep regret is that it has not been an even stronger 
factor in our life and work. It is interesting to note, in 
passing, that soon after our church came into existence, 
the need of a training school for ministers of the word 
of life was felt, and this church took the leading part in 
the inauguration of that enterprise. Dr. Romeyn was 
chairman of the Assembly's Committee to prepare a plan 
for a theological seminary, and, as a result, Princeton 
Seminary was founded. And not only did our church 
contribute generously to the new institution, but our ladies 
organized themselves into a Dorcas Society, with the pur- 
pose of aiding worthy students who were preparing for 
the ministry of the Word. More than this, when the 
New York Bible Society was organized in 1809, the 
pastor of this church was its first secretary, and three of 
its elders were managers. This same pastor, Dr. Romeyn, 
took an active part in the organization of the American 
Bible Society in 1816, and was its first secretary for do- 
mestic correspondence. In these agencies our church has 
always taken an active and generous interest. Holding 
the Word of Life firmly, it has been our business to hold 
it forth to others, that its light may everywhere shine in 
all divine splendor. 

III. The missionary apostle assumed that a living 
church to whom has been committed the priceless heritage 
of the truth would be missionary in her character and 
purpose. 

Although the territorial expansion of our country dur- 
ing the past one hundred years has been wonderful, even 
more resistless, significant and inspiring has been the 
steady expansion of the missionary enterprise at home 
and abroad. In 1808 there was very little Home Mission 
work being done, and there was no agency this side of 
England for foreign work. There was need of pioneers 
to blaze the way and turn the forces of the church in 
the right direction. Such a pioneer was to be found in 
Dr. Romeyn. He was eminent as a preacher, beloved as 



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a pastor, but in addition, a man of affairs, who interested 
himself in the great projects of the kingdom and proved 
himself to be a statesmanlike Christian leader. In almost 
every religious enterprise inaugurated in his time, he took 
some part, and he gathered about him as officers in the 
church broad-minded laymen who caught the vision of a 
world-wide mission. Hence, in the beginnings of the 
word of both the Home and Foreign Boards, appear con- 
spicuously the names of Dr. Romeyn and Elders Zecha- 
riah Lewis, Divie Bethune, and Hugh Auchincloss. A 
high missionary standard was thus set before our church 
was ten years old, and ever since then there has never 
been a time when our church has not been represented on 
the boards of these and kindred agencies by prominent 
laymen and by every pastor with the exception of the 
Rev. Cyrus Mason. 

There has been held before us constantly a high stand- 
ard, both as to the missionary character of the church and 
the actual service which may be rendered. Your atten- 
tion will doubtless be called to-morrow evening to the 
classic definition of Dr. James W. Alexander, when, in 
1847, he declared : "The Presbyterian Church is a mis- 
sionary society, the object of which is to aid in the con- 
version of the world, and every member of the church is 
a member for life of said society and bound to do all 
in his power for the accomplishment of this object." This 
was the missionary ideal held before our fathers from 
the beginning, and it is somewhat surprising to learn that 
during the ministry of Dr. Potts, in 1836, the Session, in 
order to have a more systematic plan for beneficence, set 
apart certain months for particular causes (and there 
were six of them all told), and then took this action: 
"The pastor, on the first Sabbath of each month desig- 
nated and on such other occasions during the same month 
as may be convenient to himself, shall preach upon the 
general subject; and it shall be the duty of the Clerk of 
Session to notify the agents of the several associations to 



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whom it may appertain, that they solicit the subscriptions 
of the congregation during their respective months." 
Such action would be regarded as rather advanced and 
idealistic for our time. Few churches to-day would sub- 
mit to a sermon on some religious benevolence once a 
month if not oftener and to having for each one a sub- 
scription list passed instead of a collection plate. But it 
was by that effective means our predecessors endeavored 
to hold forth the Word of Life, and because of this burn- 
ing missionary spirit manifest in pastor, officers and peo- 
ple from the beginning, our church has earned a well-de- 
served renown for her generous support of missionary 
agencies. By making her light shine afar, its lustre has 
not been dimmed at home. When the rapid growth of the 
city and the congestion of population demanded mission 
work near at hand, it was immediately taken up, and it 
has ever since been carried on with increasing interest, 
devotion and self-sacrifice, so that to-day we can point to 
our chapels and schools as being the most fruitful depart- 
ments of our work. 

The conclusion of the whole matter is that our beloved 
church for one hundred years has occupied a position of 
strategic importance, the center of the growing life of a 
metropolitan city. All the rich and varied life repre- 
sented in her has been used to fulfill the function of a 
true Christian church that is to receive and assimilate 
the truth of the gospel and then hold it forth as the one 
true light that all may discover the way of life. A rich 
heritage has been bequeathed to us, not only in the same 
word of life committed to our trust and for which the 
world is appealing, not only in a strong body of believers 
that far outnumbers the little band of a hundred years 
ago, but in the equipment and position that has been left 
us. Here we have a beautiful and commodious church 
home without any encumbrance of debt or mortgage, with 
well-furnished buildings in the city for our mission work. 
No one will question the leading place of influence which 



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the. city is taking and will long continue to take in the 
affairs of the world and of the divine kingdom. And 
God has placed us in the very heart of the city, near the 
exact geographic center of Manhattan; and more than 
this, He has given this church a position of influence, a 
high place from which she may accomplish wonders for 
the world's redemption. And all this is ours in a sense. 
It is God's, for he only doeth wondrous things. It is 
theirs, our fathers', for it represents their toil, their devo- 
tion, their prayers, and their tears. But it is ours to 
squander and lose, or to hold securely and carry on to a 
yet more glorious consummation. We may by indiffer- 
ence and ingratitude, by ease and neglect, permit to be 
written over the portals of our church, "Ichabod, her 
glory is departed," or we may, by living trust in God, by 
prayer, by wise determination, by self-sacrificing endeav- 
or, make our inheritance to be but the foundation of a 
temple of truth that will outlive the centuries and remain 
until every knee shall bow to him and every tongue shall 
confess him as Lord, and He will come to rule over all. 
Prayer 

Hymn (Anniversary) 
Benediction 
Organ Postlude — Tocatta in F Bach 

COMMUNION SERVICE, AT 4 O'CLOCK P. M. 

Organ Prelude — Matthew Passion Bach 

Anthem — "How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings Fair" Spohr 
The words of the anthem are a paraphrase of 
Psalm LXXXIV. 

Invocation Rev. Albert L. Evans 

Hymn 298 
Scripture Lesson 

Address Rev. J. Ross Stevenson, D. D. 

The pastor spoke in his communion address from the 
text: 



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''They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy 

great goodness." — Psalm CXLV : 7. 

There are two thoughts here most appropriate for this 
centennial and sacramental day, and I mention them not 
so much to explain or urge them as to suggest a fruitful 
line of meditation during this communion hour. They are 
these: Past mercies and devout thanksgiving, precious 
memories and grateful praise. 

I. A flood of recollections pour in upon us as we as- 
semble here in our church home to-day. 

This memorial feast and these memorial services in 
which we are engaged turn our thoughts back over the 
years that are gone to faces that we have loved long since 
and lost a while, to scenes that shine out in all their 
brightness and joy and to associations that have brought 
blessing and foregleams of heaven's glory. Some can 
recall the old family pew and the household that sat to- 
gether as in heavenly places, or the class in the Sunday 
School and the honest efforts that were made to under- 
stand the Book Divine; or it may be the day when you 
publicly confessed Christ and for the first time partook of 
the Holy Supper. You can recall great communion occa- 
sions at a time of wonderful spiritual refreshment when 
such a man of God as Dr. James W. Alexander, with all 
the sanctity of his consecrated life, or such a majestic 
Christian personality as Dr. John Hall, with all the sim- 
plicity, gentleness and grandeur of his strong manhood in 
Christ, stood before you and distributed the bread and 
the cup; and the Master himself drew nigh. But these 
first affections, these deep experiences apparelled in ce- 
lestial light, which seem to us the fountain light of all 
our day, the master light of all our seeing, are but the 
dim reflections of that one stupendous event at the be- 
ginning of the Christian era, of which this supper is to 
be the perpetual reminder. He that spared not his own 
Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not 



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with him freely give us all things ! All things have been 
ours since we are Christ's, and Christ is God's. 

And this carries us back to the fountain-head of all 
blessing, the great goodness of God. It is only goodness 
that we care to remember. Evil, too, often dwells in 
our minds, poisons our affections, and prevents well- 
doing, and we would give anything to blot it all out of 
our past. Christ's blood alone can do that, and as we 
sit at this feast, we may well contemplate the goodness of 
God in overcoming evil, in setting right the things that 
have been wrong in our career, in our relation with 
others, in our membership in the church of God. But 
whether we recall the joy of sin forgiven, the place of 
reconciliation, the comfort that sorrow has made sweet, 
the strength which trial has developed, or the gifts of 
health and home and friends and delightful associations, 
profitable co-operation, and an inspiring service, it is the 
simple goodness of God that we love to think about and 
which brings us the greatest happiness and profit in the 
contemplation. The bliss of heaven gathers around the 
sublime discovery that God alone is worthy to receive 
glory and honor, dominion and power. If there are any 
here to-day dejected, discouraged, "Oh, taste and see that 
the Lord is good. Blessed is the man that trusteth in him." 

II. There is a flood of memories which stream in upon 
us when we think of the goodness, the unmerited favor of 
God; and the Psalmist has also in mind here the flood 
of praise which is sure to issue forth. Abundantly utter 
is the same thing as to pour out. 

There are often precious recollections which we keep 
bound up within our hearts. Dull apprehension, thought- 
less ingratitude, the hardening influences of the world 
which is too much with us, the selfish desire for greater 
benefits than others can know or have, these impressions 
cover over the fountains of praise, make such a thick 
crust of formality and proud self-consciousness that we 
are not as thankful as we ought to be, nor as jubilant as 



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God expects us to be. But an occasion such as this is 
ordained of the Lord to break the hardest cement of in- 
difference and thanklessness, so that praise may flow 
forth in one great stream, just as streams of mercy, never 
ceasing, call for loudest songs of praise. 

He who gives the maximum of blessing desires the 
maximum of gratitude. And I do wish that on this beau- 
tiful anniversary day, which means so much to the church, 
to many of our families, to our own individual hearts, we 
might simply forget ourselves, at least our lower selves, 
all that would drag us down and hold us back, that we 
may lose ourselves in the memory of his great goodness, 
and lose ourselves in the joy and praise of this sacra- 
mental Sabbath, and then our song will be : 

"I yield my powers to thy command,. 
To thee I consecrate my days : 

Perpetual blessings from thy hand, 
Demand perpetual songs of praise." 
Reception of New Members 
Hymn 992 

Administration of the Bread Rev. Hugh Pritchard 
Administration of the Cup 

Rev. Edwin F. Hallenbeck, D. D. 
Prayer Rev. Paul R. Abbott 

Hymn 959 
Benediction 
Organ Postlude 

SUNDAY EVENING SERVICE, AT 8 O'CLOCK. 

Opening Service of Song 
Scripture Lesson and Prayer 

Rev. Edwin F. Hallenbeck, D. D. 
Hymn 515 
Address — "Our Indebtedness to Great Religious 

Movements" Rev. J. Ross Stevenson, D. D. 

The address was based upon the thought embodied in. 
the text: 



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"Others have labored, and ye are entered into 

their labor."— John IV : 38. 

No man lives and labors independently. For what he 
is and has and does, he is indebted to the service of other 
•people. A rude barbarian, when he has outgrown the 
fostering care of parents, may subsist alone in his sav- 
agery, but it is impossible for any one to do this in civ- 
ilized society. When we pass from simplicity to com- 
plexity, life becomes more and more involved, more and 
more interdependent in its relations, and more and more 
co-operative in its service. This is true of a particular 
church. Though there are churches which call them- 
selves independent, strictly speaking, there are no inde- 
pendent churches. As a true church, each is part of a 
great religious movement, and it receives in order to give. 
Our own church has reaped much where others have 
sown. In some enterprises, we have been pioneers, and 
great causes have looked to us constantly for substantial 
support. Yet from the beginning, we have freely re- 
ceived and have shared in the blessing of great religious 
movements. We do well to remind ourselves on this an- 
niversary occasion of oar indebtedness to great religious 
movements. 

In the progress of the kingdom during the past cen- 
tury, there have been great spiritual awakenings, fol- 
lowed by the establishment of great philanthropic enter- 
prises, these in turn followed by organized endeavors on 
the part of churches. 

I. We owe much "every way" to the great revivals 
which affected the Christian life of the nineteenth century. 

The revival of 1800 had much to do with the planting 
and early growth of our church. At the close of the 
Revolutionary War, religion and morality had fallen to 
the lowest water mark of the lowest ebb tide ever reached 
in our country. French infidelity was everywhere ram- 
pant, and the leading statesmen were unbelievers. In- 
temperance was so general and the demand for distilled 



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liquor so great that the attempt of the Government to 
levy a tax led to the Whiskey Insurrection of 1794. The 
whole church was in such a deplorable condition that in 
1798 the General Assembly issued a pastoral letter calling 
upon the people to observe a special day of humiliation, 
fasting and prayer, so great was the prevailing impiety 
and contempt for the laws and institutions of religion, 
the abounding infidelity and the advancing profligacy and 
corruption of public morals. In answer to prayer, there 
was a special and very general outpouring of the Holy 
Spirit which quickened into newness of life not only the 
churches of New England and of the East, but the 
churches of the South and West. The results in the in- 
crease of membership in the churches and in the quicken- 
ing of religious interest and activity were so marked that 
the General Assembly in 1803 declared, after scrupulous 
inquiry, that nothing had ever occurred in this country so 
favorable and so gratifying to the friends of truth and 
piety. It was not a short-lived experience. Wave after 
wave of deep inflowing religious life continued to pour 
over the churches at frequent intervals for a whole gen- 
eration. There was a long period of abundant life which 
enlarged and strengthened and multiplied the churches 
and equipped them for the stupendous tasks of the past 
century. It was during this period of revived Christian 
life that our church came into existence. The natural 
growth of the city had much to do with the increase of 
the churches. But it was the religious interest of the 
time which made existing church buildings inadequate to 
accommodate the people and necessitated the organization 
of new congregations. There were in existence at the 
time the First Collegiate Presbyterian Church (including 
the Wall Street Church, the Brick Church in Beeckman 
Street, the Rutgers Church on Henry Street) and the 
First Associate Presbyterian Church on Nassau Street, 
near Maiden Lane ; and because these were overcrowded, 
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at that time, advocated the erection of a new church in 
Cedar Street. In all probability, a large number of the 
charter members of our church in 1808 felt the impulse 
of that spiritual awakening. Two years later, when the 
pastor, Dr. Romeyn, was moderator of the General As- 
sembly, he commented on the evidence of the Spirit's 
work in the churches and on the visible results of a great 
religious movement. For fifteen or twenty years after 
the organization of our church, there were, as Dr. Gard- 
ner Spring testified, an uninterrupted series of celestial 
visitations, and as late as 1828-29 there was an extraor- 
dinary awakening of the New York churches, in the bene- 
fits of which the Cedar Street Church, with Cyrus Mason 
then as pastor, shared. During this early period of our 
history there were additions on confession of faith at 
every communion service, and the growth of the church 
was not only constant, but rapid. But this, we must 
remember, was in connection with a great religious move- 
ment. We were carried along by the general advance 
which the church was everywhere making. 

The revival of 1857 brought great fruitfulness to our 
church. This spiritual awakening, like the recent move- 
ment in Wales, was pre-eminently a revival of prayer. 
The human agent, in so far as any human agent could 
be recognized, who inaugurated this divine enterprise was 
Jeremiah Calvin Lanphier. In July, 1857, he became a 
lay missionary of the North Dutch Reformed Church. 
It is interesting to note that for eight or nine years pre- 
ceding this he had been a member of our church and 
had come under the spiritual ministry of the praying 
pastor. Dr. James W. Alexander. As Mr. Lanphier 
walked the streets in the performance of his missionary 
duties, the idea occurred to him that an hour of prayer 
from twelve to one o'clock would be beneficial to business 
men, an hour in which they might sing, pray, relate their 
religious experiences and come and go as their engage- 
ments or inclinations might dictate. On the 23d day of 



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September, 1857, the lecture room of the North Church 
on Fulton Street was thrown open for this purpose. Dur- 
ing the first half hour Mr. Lanphier prayed alone — no 
one came. But at 12 130 the step of a solitary individual 
was heard. Soon another came in, and then another, un- 
til six people made up the whole company. That was 
the beginning of that wonderful series of business men's 
prayer-meetings, which increased with such power and 
blessing that no one building adequate to accommodate 
the crowds could be procured, and it became necessary to 
arrange for such meetings all over the city. The en-^ 
thusiasm for prayer filled the city and spread throughout 
the country. Synchronous with it was a great awakening 
in North Ireland, in which Dr. John Hall participated 
while pastor at Armagh, and which has been chronicled, 
in Dr. William Gibson's book, "The Year of Grace in 
Ulster." Numbers are often misleading, but it gives us 
some conception of the sweep of this movement to be 
told that throughout the United States no less than one 
million persons were turned to Christ, and that in New 
York alone as many as ten thousand people united with 
the churches. In the year 1858 to 1859, our own church 
received a larger number of accessions than in any pre- 
ceding year. In one communion. May, 1858, there were 
no less than fifty-seven additions on confession of faith. 
The hearts of pastor and people were greatly rejoiced, 
and Dr. Alexander's interest in the movement and con- 
viction of its wide-reaching value found expression in 
a wonderfully suggestive and stimulating book, "The Re- 
vival and Its Lessons." 

The records of the church show that the most fruitful 
year in all her history was in 1875 and 1876. During that 
ecclesiastical year, no less than two hundred and seventy- 
one persons were received into the church on confession. 
This was the natural harvest of blessed years of toil in 
Dr. Hall's faithful pastorate. It was also coincident with 
the removal of the church up-town and the dedication 



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of the present edifice. But is it not significant that at 
that very time Brooklyn and New York were profoundly 
stirred by the meetings conducted by Dwight L. Moody. 
I can remember as a lad how my father, a minister, was 
impressed and encouraged by the accounts of those gath- 
erings, the like of which had not been seen since 1857. 
This display of God's power in our city had its natural 
effect upon our church and its life, calling men and wom- 
en to earnest thought and impelling the undecided to an 
open confession. 

It is conceivable that our church might have lived and 
thrived independently of these extensive spiritual move- 
ments, but it accords better with God's method of work- 
ing to believe that our church has been receptive to in- 
fluences affecting the whole kingdom, and has stood ready 
to profit by the example and labor of others. I can only 
mention one other fact which clearly indicates how much 
we have been helped from the outside. A large propor- 
tion of the ten thousand members that have been enrolled, 
surely one-half, have been received by letter from sister 
churches. 

11. There are great philanthropic enterprises which 
have exerted a strong reflex influence upon the life and 
work of our beloved church. It would be interesting to 
show, if the time permitted, how spiritual awakenings 
have been followed by earnest endeavors to give the gos- 
pel to every creature and uplift mankind. For example, 
the great evangelical revival of the Eighteenth Century 
led directly to the abolition of the slave trade in England, 
the organization of the Religious Tract Society, the Brit- 
ish and Foreign Bible Society, the London and the 
Church Missionary Societies. Just so the revivals of the 
past century, more notably the one in 1800 and the fol- 
lowing years, gave a decided impulse to missionary and 
philanthropic effort. 

When our church had its beginnings, the population 
was not congested in the cities as it is now, but was dis- 



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tributed throughout the country. There were no large 
cities, and hence many of the problems so familiar to us 
were not known by the fathers. The tasks of the church, 
outside its own parish, were related to the two great en- 
terprises of Domestic and Foreign Missions. These great 
fields of service were brought to the attention of the 
church by the great spiritual awakenings of which I have 
spoken. Both of these agencies of the church can be 
traced back to the revival of 1800, and, connected with 
them, other important forms of service were brought into 
existence; the means of educating ministers, culminating 
in the establishment of Princeton Theological Seminary; 
the circulation of the Scriptures and the formation of 
the New York Bible Society and the American Bible So- 
ciety ; the distribution of good literature, and the organi- 
zation of the American Tract Society. It was also found 
necessary to establish schools and missions in our own 
city, as well as elsewhere, and the American Sunday 
School Union and the New York City Mission and Tract 
Society were the result. These religious activities were 
not only the result of apparent needs, but of a quickened 
religious consciousness which it requires a real spiritual 
awakening to bestow. 

We have already learned by this morning's study what 
the vital relation of our church to all these organizations 
or societies has been. Among their founders, directors, 
trustees and chief benefactors have been placed the pas- 
tors and influential laymen of our church. Our people 
have contributed constantly and generously and have been 
a substantial help. This has meant much to these agen- 
cies, as will be duly pointed out, but let us not overlook 
nor forget what it has meant to us. We honor the men 
whose names are conspicuous in the life and work of the 
church, and let us also give praise for the occasions which 
challenged them, called out the best that was in them and 
developed their gifts to the highest point of usefulness. 
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ness, provincialism, selfishness and death. We have as a 
church had the means for broadening the vision, enlarging 
the sympathy, inspiring the best service and promoting 
a life not self-contained, but overflowing in blessing and 
distributing itself throughout the world. 

III. There have been also great organized endeavors 
from which our church has derived profit. Spiritual 
awakenings prompting benevolent enterprises necessitated 
systematic effort so that the forces of the church might 
be most advantageously utilized. After great missionary 
societies had been organized, it was found desirable to 
plant societies in the individual churches. In this direc- 
tion there have been four great movements, the enlist- 
ment of young men, the enlistment of women, the enlist- 
ment of young people, and the enlistment of men. 

It is worthy of note that the Young Men's Social and 
Benevolent Society of our church, which for years did 
a splendid service by way of enlisting and training young 
men, was organized in 1842, two years before George 
Williams founded the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion in England, and nine years before the Association 
idea was introduced into America. But unquestionably 
this Association movement which swept over the country 
strengthened the work in our own church, magnified the 
importance of this particular enterprise, and gave our men 
such training as naturally fitted them for positions of 
leadership in the great undertaking of "work for young 
men by young men." 

So also have the women of our church profited by the 
movement in the whole church. As early as 1810 a 
Dorcas Society was organized in our church to aid the 
students of Princeton Seminary. Prior to this there had 
been several "Cent a Week" and other similar organiza- 
tions formed in New England. But so far as we have 
any record, ours was the first women's society west of 
Massachusetts. This developed into the Princeton Sem- 
inary Association of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian 



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Church. In the pastorate of Dr. Alexander there was a 
Ladies' Foreign Evangelical Society, which co-operated 
with the young men in the support of an evangelist in 
France. But it was not until after the organization of 
the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Boards and 
the establishment of auxiliary societies in the various 
churches that the Auxiliary Society and Young Women's 
Missionary Society of our church were formed. 

The Young People's Association took up the work of 
the Young Men's Social and Benevolent Society, adapted 
it to changing conditions, and, apart from affiliation with 
any general movement, has done a splendid and perma- 
nent work. And yet the atmosphere created by the 
sychronous interest of young people throughout the whole 
church has no doubt proved a greater inspiration to us 
than we can realize. The movement which characterizes 
the present-day life of the churches is that which has to 
do with the men, and which in our own denomination has 
crystallized into the Presbyterian Brotherhood. From 
this in turn we have derived benefit in the vision given 
as to the possibilities of Bible study, of individual work 
and of missionary interest and support. 

These influences may seem to some far-fetched and a 
very small value may be placed upon them, just as we 
often fail to appreciate the influences which have made 
us personally what we are. But no man liveth unto him- 
self, or by himself. The Christian must work out his 
own salvation, but he is not asked to do it in solitary 
confinement. He may lead some kind of a religious life 
outside the church and isolated from his fellow Chris- 
tians, but all experience goes to show that he will grow 
faster, become stronger and prove more useful when he 
alligns himself with the whole company of believers. God 
setteth the solitary in families. The Apostolic method of 
establishing the kingdom was not merely to organize 
local churches, but to keep them in touch with each other 
that they might be mutually helpful. The society, the 



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church which grows most is the one most susceptible to 
the best influences from every quarter. Even in the posi- 
tion of leadership, it gets suggestion and inspiration from 
the rank and file. This is the method by which the Spirit 
of God has been working down through the centuries, 
and, while we thank him for the part he has given us in 
great religious movements, we will not forget to thank 
him for the place he has given us in them where we 
might receive the most, so as to give the best. 

Here we are at the close of a century of glorious his- 
tory, and all the best influences of a hundred years have 
not only been received, they have been assimilated, puri- 
fied, energized, and handed down to us, that we might 
transmit them to others. Others have labored, and we 
are entered into their labor. And they look down upon 
us to see if by us their tasks may be carried forward to 
completion, since they without us are not made perfect, 
"Therefore, let us also, seeing we are compassed about 
with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight 
and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run 
with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto 
Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith." 
Prayer 
Hymn 554 
Benediction. 



AT THE MISSIONARY SERVICE, held Monday, 
December 21, 8 P. M., the following addresses were 
delivered. 
**Our Church and City Missions" 

Rev. a. F. Schauffler, D. D. 

The local church has a work of its own within its walls. 
If there, however, its work ceases, sooner or later that 
church dies. The local church must work in wider and 
ever widening circles to maintain its own life and power. 



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The first of these widening circles that presents itself 
to any urban church is the city in which the church is 
located. The second field, still wider, is the land in which 
the city is located, and the last and widest field is the 
world in which the land finds its habitation. 

We are to begin to-night with the smaller of these cir- 
cles, widening out to home missions and broadening still 
further to the foreign missionary work which this church 
has blessed and by which this church itself has been 
blessed. 

One hundred years from eighteen hundred and eight, 
to nineteen himdred and eight, is a far cry. In this hun- 
dred years many things have happened within and with- 
out the church, within and without the city, and the land 
and the world, revolutions on revolutions, advances and 
retrograde movement. On the whole, advance. The 
story of the last hundred years is a story unsurpassed 
by any hundred years in this world's history. 

My part of the story of the activity of this church per- 
tains chiefly to this city of ours, and when I say this city 
I mean pre-eminently Manhattan and the Bronx, for that 
is the older New York City. This church has been living 
now for one hundred years, and the society which I rep- 
resent before you this evening has been living for eighty 
years, for the New York City Mission was founded in 
1828. Singularly enough, and happily, from that time 
to this never has this church had, a pastor — with one sin- 
gle exception — which pastor was not also a member of 
the Board of the New York City Mission and Tract So- 
ciety. In 1828, I find from the record, from that time 
to 1836, the Rev. Dr. Mason was pastor of the church 
and also director of our City Mission Society. The same 
was true of the Rev. Dr. George Potts, who was pastor 
here from 1836 to 1844. He was followed by Dr. J. W. 
Alexander, in whose pastorate here there was a short 
interregnum when he attempted to withdraw from the 
pastorate, and then was called back again. He ministered 



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from 1844 to 1859, and was also one of the directors of 
our society. Then came the Rev. Dr. N. L. Rice, from 
1859 to 1869, and he followed in the footsteps of his 
predecessors in this one particular. Then began the im- 
mortal pastorate of the Rev. Dr. John Hall, from 1869, 
and from that time to the day of being gathered to his 
fathers and his rest and his reward Dr. John Hall was 
one of the directors of our society. Then came the one 
short interregnum, when, for not quite two years. Dr. 
Purvis was pastor here, and he was not a member of our 
board. He was followed by your present pastor, whom 
we rejoice also to number among those who are with us 
in the board of the New York City Mission and Tract 
Society. 

So that you see, for fourscore years, with the brief in- 
terruption of not quite two years, the Fifth Avenue Pres- 
byterian Church and the New York City Mission and 
Tract Society have been fast friends, and as we have 
possibly in some ways helped the pastors, so they certain- 
ly in large ways have helped the work which we repre- 
sent. 

When you come to the financial side, we can see much 
of the debt which our society owes to this church as a 
corporate body, and to the members of this church as 
individuals. Always during the earlier history of the 
society, before we employed any paid agents and while 
we were practically a voluntary society, distributing tracts 
and holding neighborhood prayer-meetings; I say from 
that time down to the present day there has probably not 
been any year when the financial hand of this church has 
not been stretched out in sympathy and aid to the society 
that I represent. 

If I should try to gather up all the statements with 
regard to this financial aid that has come to us from 
your church and your members, it would amount to a 
vast sum, and when I say a vast sum I mean it would 
amount to hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dol- 



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lars, for there have been large givers, members of this 
congregation who have given to us outside of the regular 
church offering, like Mr. and Mrs. Stuart, of sacred mem- 
ory. There have been those who have left to our society 
bequests like one which came to us of over eighty thou- 
sand dollars, from a former member of this church. We 
have had gifts from the living, and gifts from those who 
have passed away. Always large, always liberal, and 
always exceedingly regular. 

One of the former members of this congregation and 
church donated to our city mission a complete church, he 
paying every dollar for the complete outfit of the church, 
from the beginning to the end, and then he passed it over 
to us, and before he went to his rest partially endowed 
the same. Another former member of this church gave 
to our society its permanent home in the United Chari- 
ties Building, on the corner of Twenty-second Street and 
Fourth Avenue, where comfortably and without expense 
the society finds its permanent abiding place in this great 
city of ours. 

So we could go on and illustrate the vital connection 
and the most helpful connection between this congrega- 
tion and church and the society, which is doing work ex- 
clusively among the tenement house population of our 
city. There be those who have been members of this 
church, who have supported entirely by themselves cer- 
tain women missionaries and trained nurses; for our so- 
ciety was the first that put trained nurses into the homes 
of the tenement house population. There are those here 
to-day who are supporting individual missionaries, send- 
ing them as proxies, so to speak, going where they them- 
selves could not go, administering to others in their stead 
and in the Saviour's blessed name. 

It would not do for me to sit down without referring 
to another form of activity in which the society has been 
brought in vital connection with the Fifth Avenue Presby- 
terian Church. Some four years ago a movement was 



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started in this city, called the Evangelistic Tent Move- 
ment. The intent was to send out evangelists in the 
heated term, during the summer, to preach in open tents 
God's truth to those who would not and could not go 
inside of the church walls. From the very first of that 
Evangelistic Tent Movement, with which I have the priv- 
ilege of being associated, the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian 
Church has stood as one of the large-hearted and loyal 
friends. Only one other church in this city can in any 
way match itself with this Fifth Avenue Presbyterian 
Church in its support of the Evangelistic Tent Movement, 
and that is the Brick Presbyterian Church, which stands 
well alongside of this one in its large-hearted giving, 
that to those thousands, tens of thousands — yes, scores 
of thousands — who gather in the open tents, the glad 
news of God's love in Christ may be brought. 

Time would fail if we were to try to weave together 
in warp and woof the complete pattern, showing all the 
activities of individual members of this church in this 
great city of ours. Indeed, there is need that there should 
be such activity, not on the part of this church only, but 
on the part of all believers everywhere. 

It has been my privilege to be, for thirty-five years, a 
worker in city missions in New York, and that is more 
than one-third of the life of this church. I remember the 
day when, twenty-five years ago, we said that the great 
East Side was so crowded that it could not be any more 
crowded; it had reached its maximum. We were mis- 
taken. The great East Side had not, and the great East 
Side has not, reached its maximum. Always we were 
hoping for deliverance from the overcrowded tenement 
district in its terrible congestion. First came the ele- 
vated, and then we thought, ''Now, they will flow north." 
They did, but more flowed in. Then came the electric 
cars and bridges, and then we thought, "Now, they will 
flow out," and they did, but they flowed in faster. Then 
came the subway, and we said, "Now, they will go," and 



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they did, but they came faster. And, by and by, we 
shall get tunnels from Jersey and to Long Island, and 
then we will say, "Now, they will go" ; and so they will, 
but they will come faster! 

So the problem remains for the church, and for the in- 
dividual members of the church, a problem accentuated; 
for there are more people living south of Fourth Street 
and east of Fifth Avenue than ever before, and ten years 
from now there will be still more. This is being made 
possible by modern appliances, and never shall I forget 
when I saw with trepidation the establishment of the first 
elevator in a tenement house. I thought to myself, "Five 
stories has been the maximum of the tenement house, 
because people will not climb more than four flights of 
stairs, but with the elevator they will go up forty." And 
when the elevator comes in the tenement house, as it has 
begun to come, then the overcrowding problem assumes 
new, vaster and more momentous proportions. 

Permit me to say that there are many streets in New 
York, which I frequently traverse, where, if all the popu- 
lation on either side came out on the street at the same 
moment, there would not be standing-room for them 
from wall to wall. 

That being the situation, the call for church service, 
for city mission work, for individual activity, never 
ceases; for, with the massing of the population, there 
mass also other problems grave and diflicult of solution. 
In the solving of these problems, members of this church 
have achieved wonderful success. 

I am not able to give you even a list of those activities 
in which the members of this church have been peculiarly 
blessed and peculiarly a blessing to the city. I have 
jotted down some of them. Take, for example, the 
Museum of Natural History, owing a boundless debt of 
gratitude to one of the former members of this church 
now passed to his rest. Take the Presbyterian Hospital, 
owing also a debt of gratitude to this church, centering 



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within these walls practically. Then there is the Eye and 
Ear Hospital, and the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion, and the Young Women's Christian Association, the 
Five Points House of Industry, and the Children's Aid 
Society, and I know not how many of these organizations 
into whose life-blood has poured the faith and the pur- 
pose and the money of those who at present, or who in 
former days, have been members of the Fifth Avenue 
Presbyterian Church. 

I honestly believe that there is no church on Manhat- 
tan Island whose activities on the whole, during all these 
years, up to the very present moment, will surpass that 
of this church along every line of the purifying, of the 
elevating, and of the Christianizing of the community on 
the island on which we dwell. 

Yesterday I went to see the Tuberculosis Exhibit, 
thinking it a fitting thing to do on the Lord's day, be- 
cause much of the Lord's work there is exhibited through 
the hands of his disciples, and when I saw that truly 
wondrous exhibit, I blessed God that we were on the 
edge of conquering that great white plague that has 
wrought such havoc throughout the length and breadth 
of our land ; and then I began to think and say, "Right is 
all this ; blessed work is all this ; but a man may be cured 
of tuberculosis and remain a thief; he may be cured of 
the white plague and remain himself a black plague on 
society." When we have cured the man's body we have 
gone only skin-deep, as it were. That is grand work, 
and God speed the men who are doing work of this kind ; 
but we have also that work, plus a larger, more abiding, 
more important, more imperative work than the mere 
curing of the body. The church of Christ comes to this 
world for the curing of the soul. In that, in itself, and 
through other organizations, I know of no church that 
has done grander work than the church whose hundredth 
anniversary we are now celebrating. 

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church are never really ultimately realized. There lies 
always the beyond of a larger possibility. I want to say 
that for one humble resident of Manhattan Island I have 
been cheered and comforted by the attitude that this 
church has taken of late years along two lines ; within its 
own walls, I mean. One is the providing here in the 
summer time, for those who remain in the city and who 
come to the city of necessity for the summer, of preach- 
ing and divine worship of the very highest grade. Time 
was when this was not always the case with the churches 
in this town, but when the management of this church is 
of such an intelligent nature that they place in this pulpit 
men of national and international reputation during June, 
July and August, so that these pews and galleries are 
full, never mind what the thermometer says, that is a 
benediction to this great town of ours; that is letting 
your light so shine that men see your good works, and 
glorify your Father who is in Heaven, and the gathering 
here, the securing here, not during the summer season 
only, but at times during the regular season, of men like 
"Gypsy" Smith, and other men we can mention — Camp- 
bell Morgan and Hugh Black and the like — the gathering 
of these men is something for which the city ought to be 
thankful, and of which this church has just reason to 
be sanctifiedly proud. 

On behalf of many who come here, who are not mem- 
bers of this church, to whom you have thus ministered, I 
desire to bring a token of gratitude, and to render in their 
behalf to this church and its pastor and elders, thanks for 
this careful ministry to the wants of the great spiritual 
public. 

A hundred years have closed, and another hundred 
years are just opening. God grant that those hundred 
years that lie before us may be as marked in their prog- 
ress and as engrossed in their activity as the hundred 
years that lie behind us have steadfastly been from decade 
to decade. 



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In behalf of that society that I represent, let me close 
by saying sincerely : We thank you for your co-operation, 
ior your sympathy, and for your substantial aid. 



"Our Qiurch and Home Missions" 

Rev. Charles L. Thompson, D. D. 

"Spiritual strategy demands that the evangelization of 
America should be kept in advance of every other move- 
ment for the conversion of the world." So wrote that 
great advocate of home and foreign missions, Professor 
Austin Phelps. His statement is in line with the Master's 
command — to compass the evangelization of the world 
by an orderly advance from established centers. He rep- 
resents missions as a movement. It is not an institution — 
much less a doctrine. It is a march — 3. march that must 
not rest till the world has been brought under the power 
of the principles of Jesus; a march that moves outward 
like rays of light from a radiating center. Light never 
jumps. Its line is continuous and unbroken. And history 
shows that that missionary adventure is mightiest and 
most conquering when it conquers as it goes. 

What a magnificent and victorious wedge of gospel 
light is that which, starting from Jerusalem, cleaves the 
darkness of Asia Minor, crosses into southeastern Europe, 
rises over the Alps, breaks through the darkness of Ger- 
man forests, crosses over into the druidic night of the 
British Isles, and then, as by the energy of all its con- 
quests, leaps over an ocean to light up a new continent. 
Here it could not rest. Already by accumulations of radi- 
ating power it has streamed over the Pacific and is touch- 
ing with first pencils of sunrise the mountainous pagan- 
ism of a final continent. 

This church has had the vision of a strategist. It has 
taken the command of Christ in its broadest sweep and 
in its most philosophic order. For generations it has 
been a missionary church — not in spots, not for sections. 



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It has striven for the Kingdom, whether by the term was 
meant Manhattan Island, or America, or the world. Re- 
fusing to parcel out the great commission to this section 
or that, to this race or that, it has wrought for the re- 
demption of man. 

I am to speak to you of what it has done in a century 
for that part of the Kingdom which for economic reasons 
is called home missions. Missions is missions, the same 
in principles and obligations. One command covers it all. 
But for convenience or economy it has two great divi- 
sions, no more to be distinguished as to essential char- 
acter or motives than two divisions of an army fighting 
the same battle. What now has this church done for that 
part of the battle whose lines are under the national flag? 

I am unable to give the figures of a hundred years. 
Much of the first half of the century is lost in the dust of 
years. But in general terms it may be said a mighty mis- 
sionary character was stamped on its very beginnings. 
It could not be otherwise. This church was born in the 
first enthusiasm for modern missions. In foreign mis- 
sions the thrill of the "haystack prayer-meeting" was still 
on the church. In home missions the beginning of the 
last century marked the first great advance. It was then 
that Christian pioneers pierced the forests of the Empire 
State and swung their thin lines over the Alleghenies. It 
was then that the first settlements were being made in 
the old Northwest, and missionaries, with commissions 
covering a state, were hurried forward. A vision of 
the West — restricted indeed compared to that which since 
has rolled on the eyes of the church, but romantic and 
thrilling — came over the consciousness of the church. 
This church could scarce fail to feel the pulse of that 
mighty movement and to respond to its power. 

The history of this church in home missions can be di- 
vided into three parts : First, the personnel of the church 
in the Board of Home Missions; second, the contribu- 
tions ; and, third, the interest in special fields. 



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First, as to the personnel. The Board of Home Mis- 
sions was organized as a Committee of Home Missions in 
1803, and as a Home Mission Board in 1816. The very 
next year, namely, 1817, the Rev. John B. Romeyn, D. D., 
pastor of the church, and Elders Bethune and Lewis were 
members of the board. Dr. Romeyn was at that time 
president of the board. In 1827 Zechariah Lewis was 
elected by the General Assembly, and in 1829 two mem- 
bers of the session, Cyrenius Beers and Hugh Auchin- 
closs, were members of the board. Dr. George Potts was 
made a member of the board in 1839, Dr. James W. Al- 
exander in 1846, Dr. N. L. Rice in 1862, Dr. John Hall 
in 1869, and after his death in 1898 he was succeeded by 
Dr. George Purves, whose sudden and early death is still 
mourned by this church and by the Board of Home Mis- 
sions in whose service so much usefulness was promised. 
Robert L. Stuart, who for a number of years was leading 
trustee in our church, is named as a member of the board 
in 1 85 1. His name appears again in 1867. Following 
him was Jacob C. Vermilye, who was one of the incor- 
porators of the present board, and who continued in 
service from 1871 to 1892. He was succeeded by John 
S. Kennedy in 1892. Mr. H. Edwards Rowland was 
made a member of the board in 1893. Mr. D. B. Ivison, 
who subsequently united with our church, was a membef 
of the board in 1894, and Mr. Henry W. Jessup and Mr. 
Rowland represent the church at the present time. 

Dr. John Hall, so long the honored and beloved pastor 
of this church, became president of the board in 1881, 
and so continued until his death. Punctual in his at- 
tendance at the meetings of the board, devoted to all its 
interests from the larger scope of it to the smallest de- 
tails at the board meetings, wise in counsel, always 
courteous, he endeared himself to the entire membership 
of the board and its officers. His appeals for the cause 
before general assemblies from year to year will long 
be remembered. 



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Second, contributions. As early as 1836 a committee 
of the session prepared a systematic plan of beneficence 
for this church and recommended that the attention of 
the people be directed to the following religious benev- 
olences : The Bible Society in the month of November ; 
Domestic Missions, December; Education Cause, Janu- 
ary; Sabbath Schools, February; Foreign Missions, 
March; Tract Distribution, April. 

It thus appears that very early in its history this church 
made definite plans for that benevolent work which has 
grown to such conspicuous dimensions. Our church is 
just beginning to realize the value and importance of sys- 
tematic ways of giving, and in making plans, as plans 
are now being made, for the adoption of definite system 
in benevolent contributions, this church may proudly point 
to the example it set more than seventy years ago. 

I am unable to give the record of the gifts of this 
church to the Board of Home Missions for any date 
earlier than 1845. I^ that year the contribution was $763. 
That was about the average of contributions up to 1853, 
when there was a sudden rising in the offering, which 
amounted that year to $3,779. It continued at an average 
of about that figure for the next seven years. In 1862 it 
rose to $8,500. That level, however, was not reached 
again until 1869, when it rose to $19,769. From then on 
for a period of many years the gifts of this church — 
leading all the other churches of the denomination — ad- 
vanced rapidly, reaching the high-water mark in 1886, 
when the enormous contribution of over $50,000 is re- 
corded. The total sum contributed during the past sixty- 
three years reached the generous aggregate of $953,973. 
There are undoubtedly special gifts by individuals for 
our work that are not listed by the General Assembly 
in the contributions of the church which would bring the 
2iggregate up far beyond a million dollars. It should be 
said of this sum $187,000 is the gift of the women's or- 
ganizations to the Woman's Board of Home Missions. 



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One of the most conspicuous and useful directions in 
which the Fifth Avenue Church has given itself to home 
mission work is in the Home Missionary Society, which, 
through the Woman's Board c^ Home Missions, has been 
instrumental in doing work for the exceptional popula- 
tions in a great many directions. In all the departments 
of that widely extended work the influence of this society 
has been potent — among the Indians, the Mormons, the 
Mexicans, the Mountaineers, the Alaskans and the 
Islanders. 

In two directions especially has their work been per- 
sistently good and fruitful — that among the Indians of 
the Indian Territory and among the Eskimos of Alaska. 

[At this point the speaker reviewed with dramatic 
power the history of the work among the Indians. He 
continued :] 

When the history of Indian missions is written there 
is no chapter that will be of more dramatic interest than 
that of the origin, migrations, trials and victories of the 
Cherokees, and no body of helpers will be more gratefully 
remembered as having contributed to the salvation of 
these neglected people than the Home Missionary Society 
of the Fifth Avenue Church. 

Another direction in which the liberality and devotion 
of this church has been manifest is in that farthest and 
saddest of all our stations, far within the Arctic Circle 
and only a few hundred miles this side of the North 
Pole. It has been called the loneliest station in the world. 
Until recently it has shared that distinction with St. Law- 
rence Island, in Behring Sea, because it could be reached 
by mail only once a year, and then rather precariously, 
for sometimes the government steamer was unable to 
force its way through the ice and has had to turn back 
without delivering its cargo. Now, however, thanks to 
the reindeer service initiated by Dr. Sheldon Jackson, 
there is mail along the coast to Point Barrow two or three 
times in the course of the year. 



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That station was opened by Dr. Jackson in 1890. It 
was during that year that he made a direct appeal to 
liberal givers in this church, with the result that the salary 
of a missionary was provided. The Rev. Mr. Stevenson 
was the first missionary. He has been followed by twa 
others — Dr. Marsh and the Rev. S. R. Spriggs — each 
holding the field for a number of years. 

The conditions they have had to face have been hard 
in the extreme. Not only the isolation and the sense of 
solitude, the absolute impossibility of securing help in 
the case of any serious accident or illness, the rigors of 
a terrific climate, the white light of the long day with the 
sun hanging on the horizon, and the equally long night 
when for three months the work must be carried on and 
the life must be lived in almost unbroken darkness; but 
also the stolidity, degradation, sickness and sufferings of 
the natives — all these things conspire to make it a field of 
the utmost difficulty, and which could be manned only 
by rare heroism. 

To these difficulties must be added the yet more serious 
one of the evil influence of fishermen and other occa- 
sional travelers whose only dealings with the natives are 
for their demoralization and destruction. 

This church has kept that light burning for now eight- 
een years. Not the least of the fruits of that mission has 
been the heroism which the missionaries have displayed^ 
and which has testified to the church and the world that 
the days of apostolic zeal and devotion have not wholly 
passed away. 

Last year the Rev. S. R. Spriggs felt obliged to retire 
from the service. He had had not only the hardships of 
the climate and the ordinary obstacles to the work, but 
also he was obliged to suffer persecution from white men 
who were the enemies of missionary work for the Eski- 
mos. It was unfortunate that some of the unjustifiable 
attacks which were made upon his conduct were made by 
an agent of the Government, an inspector of school work 



176 Centennial Celefiration of tfte 

and Alaskan conditions. But the persecutions which he 
thus suffered were the occasion of bringing to us vindica- 
tions of his character and his service from a source which 
was so unexpected as to make the information all the 
more beautiful. 

A few years ago a Swedish explorer, bound on chart- 
ing some of the lands of the Polar Sea — his boat having 
been wrecked and he having been obliged to come out on 
foot from three hundred miles east of Point Barrow — 
providentially fell in with our missionary on reaching that 
station. Staying with him for a week he became so con- 
vinced of his integrity and usefulness as a missionary 
that, though not a religious man himself, nor an Ameri- 
can, on coming to New York he sought us out for the 
purpose of expressing to us his conviction of the good 
our missionary was doing and of the unfounded character 
of the reports which had been circulated concerning him. 

On the retirement of Mr. Spriggs we sent out a call for 
a missionary to take his place. It fell under the eye of 
Dr. Marsh, who had been Mr. Spriggs' predecessor. Al- 
though then comfortably pursuing his profession in an 
Illinois town, the call of the Eskimos so pulled upon him 
that he offered himself for a renewal of his service. In 
his letter of application he said a trial for lunacy might 
be necessary first, for his parents were sure that he must 
be going crazy. But he knew his friends in the Arctic 
Circle would welcome him and he wanted to go back and 
serve them with his medical skill and missionary zeal. He 
is there now in the darkness of the Polar winter. 

But the manifestation of these qualities of heroism and 
of the fact that God's men and women are still ready to 
endure hardness for the Master's sake, are not the only 
evidences of the value of that mission. A church has 
been organized which has now a total membership of 
about two hundred, and they are trying among their stern 
surroundings to live lives of Christian faith and service. 
That they are backing up their profession by their deeds 



ififtft atienue pre^Iipterian Cfturcft 177 

is manifest from the fact that since the first of April of 
this year there have been received from the Ootkiavik 
Church (that is the name of the organization at Point 
Barrow) two remittances of, respectively, $i6o and $128. 
These have been forwarded by a Seattle fur company to 
whom furs were consigned with the request that the pro- 
ceeds be forwarded to the treasurer of the Home Board. 
They have no money to give, but out over the frozen sea 
or land they pursue the wild animals whose skins are 
their gifts for extending the gospel in other regions. If 
the churches generally gave according to the measure of 
the liberality of the Ootkiavik Church, treasuries of mis- 
sions would verily overflow. 

It is a far cry from Alaska to Porto Rico, but in that 
beautiful Island the women of this church also have their 
memorial — not only in gifts to schools and to the Pres- 
byterian Hospital at San Juan, but especially later in the 
large gift of one of the ladies of this church of about 
sixteen thousand dollars for the purchase and rebuilding 
of a beautiful property for the use of the Presbyterian 
Church there and of the school under the care of the 
Woman's Board. 

This is part of the story of the century past. What 
about the century before us ? This at least : Down its 
swift-coming years the cause for which you have stood 
so grandly will go forward to its consummation. This 
land shall come under the sway of the gospel of Christ. 
And through this land — according to the measure of its 
responsibility — the world shall be evangelized. And this 
church in the generations to come will be true to its his- 
tory, its country, and its God. 



*'Our Church and Foreign Missions" 

Mr. Robert E. Speer 
I do not propose to attempt any record of the achieve- 
ments of this church in the work of foreign missions dur- 



178 Centennial Celefiration of tfee 

ing the past century. I do not know them; no man 
knows them. It would be a comparatively easy thing 
to estimate the gifts of the church, as a church, to 
foreign missions during the past century, aggregating, 
I suppose, including legacies, not less than a million 
and a half dollars. It would be an easy thing to point 
out, here and there in the world, investments that this 
church has made in the missionary enterprise; the sta- 
tion at Shun Te Fu, in Northern China, which this 
church established and maintains; here and there, in 
many lands, buildings which represent the generous 
interest of the people of this congregation; but even 
after we have made a list of all the achievements of 
which we know, we should be sure that there was 
more of which we did not know, things of which no 
record has been made, generous expressions of inter- 
est, the chief beauty of which was that they were done 
with no human eye to mark them. And even if we 
did know all this record, we should have no time here 
this evening to review it all. It is crowded full, we may 
be sure, of a great multitude of small services which we 
never could find time even to remind one another of, if 
we had the record complete. 

Dr. Stevenson gave me, the other day, a copy of a let- 
ter of James W. Alexander's, written in the early years, 
illustrative, I have no doubt, of a great deal that could 
be dug out of the early records of the church. "At no 
time," he wrote before the Civil War, "have we had a 
greater concurrence of good news from foreign missions, 
and an accession of converts in almost all. Their work 
is going on with great energy. We to-day contributed 
another thousand dollars for another chapel at Ningpo, 
and had notice of an equal gift from an individual, for the 
same purpose. Our foreign board is at length incor- 
porated, under the recent law of this State." It is a 
rather interesting fact that the young member of the legis- 
lature whose energy brought about that incorporation 



jFiftfi atjenue pre^fiptenan Cfiurcft 179 

was, I believe, Mr. Chauncey M. Depew. I presume 
in the early history of the church there could be found 
a great many records of this kind, indicative of the in- 
terest of this church in small missionary enterprises all 
over the world. There must be hundreds of them, but 
even if we knew them all, and had time to review them 
all, we could not estimate here this evening, or at any 
time, their real values. The things that we should re- 
gard as greatest, time would probably show to have been 
among the least important, and many deeds of very little 
consequence in the judgment of those who did them 
will doubtless turn out, in the end, to have been among 
the great and memorable achievements of the church. 

These things are of little consequence to recall. What 
things we did it is not worth while remembering for their 
own sake. The past is only valuable as it enables men 
to go on to a better future, and the things which fill the 
past are of no interest to us, save as they embody those 
great principles by which we may guide ourselves in the 
years that are to come. And I wish to speak very briefly 
of three great missionary principles, illustrative of the 
interest of this church in the work of foreign missions. 

In the -first place, this church has home testimony to 
the real end and business of the church. 

It conceived from the very beginning of the church as 
a force for human service. I was looking, this afternoon, 
at the old constitution of the Young Men's Social and 
Benevolent Society of the church, in the introduction of 
which the needs of the young men of the church in the 
city were first set forth, and it was then stated that the 
best way to meet these needs was to associate young men 
together in "united benevolent action." From the very 
beginning the church understood that to be her mission ; 
that she was not a society for the spiritual cultivation 
of her members, that she was a gathering together of 
men and women in order that by their combined activity 



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they might exert themselves more helpfully for their fel- 
lows. 

And the church perceived from the beginning that this 
service, which was to be her business, was to be wide as 
all human need. I was interested when Dr. Thompson 
was recalling this great Hst of names, to recall also 
how those same names, for the most part, had been 
identified with the foreign missionary activities of the 
church. From the very dawn of the foreign mission- 
ary enterprise of our church this organization has been 
related to it. There has never wanted, I believe, a 
year, from the day when the first foreign missionary 
organization in the Presbyterian Church was estab- 
lished, in which this church has not been represented 
on the governing board. For almost half this century 
pastors of this church have been members of the Board 
of Foreign Missions. In the year 1817 two mem- 
bers of this church, the pastor and one of the elders, 
were members of the committee for organizing a for- 
eign missionary society, a society in which the Presby- 
terian Church, and the Dutch Reformed Church, and the 
Associated Reformed Church united to carry on foreign 
missionary work. Three members of this church became 
members of that new board, which was in existence for 
ten years. In 1826 it was proposed to consolidate that 
united missionary organization with the American Board 
of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and Zechariah 
Lewis was on the committee having in charge the meas- 
ures of consolidation. When the consolidation was ef- 
fected, and the Presbyterian Church had no longer any 
foreign missionary society of its own, the home mis- 
sionary organization was authorized to undertake, if it 
desired, foreign missonary work. It was feared, how- 
ever, that that might lead to some misunderstanding as 
between our own church and the American Board, and 
there was no further organized foreign missionary ac- 
tivity on the part of the church as a whole until the year 



Jfifti) atienue pte06ptetian CJ)urcft iSi 

1837. The conscience of the church, however, was not 
easy under that situation. There were men who believed 
that it was not right for a great Christian organization 
not to carry on foreign missionary activities in its own 
name, and in its own character, as an ecclesiastical organ- 
ization. 

Out in Pennsylvania, in the year 1831, there was organ- 
ized what was called the Western Foreign Missionary 
Society, which was intended to redeem the Presbyterian 
Church from what those who founded it deemed the dis- 
grace of having no authorized foreign missionary organi- 
zation of its own. In the Assembly of 1835 the ques- 
tion came up as to whether this Western Foreign Mis- 
sionary Society should be taken over by the Presby- 
terian Church. I have no doubt with the influence 
of those who were strong in the councils of this organ- 
ization, the General Assembly of that year resolved to 
undertake measures looking to the consolidation of the 
Western Foreign Missionary Society with the growing 
spread of foreign missions throughout the church as a 
whole. The Assembly of 1836 reversed that action by a 
very narrow majority, but the Assembly of the following 
year reversed that reversal and set up our foreign mis- 
sionary board, which has been in existence from that year 
down to this. 

Dr. Potts and Hugh Auchincloss were made members 
of that board. Of the seven or eight members of the first 
executive committee of that board, Dr. Potts and Mr. 
Auchincloss were two. From that day down to this that 
board or committee has never lacked representatives from 
this church. Dr. Potts was succeeded by Dr. Alexander 
and Dr. Alexander by Dr. Rice. Mr. Auchincloss was 
succeeded by Robert L. Stuart and he by Hooper C. 
Van Vorst, and he by Alexander Maitland and War- 
ner Van Norden, and now Dr. Stevenson closes the 
long roll of the century that binds the organization 
work of foreign missions of our church to the life of 



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this individual organization ; and best of all, it was out 
of this church, through the voice of Dr. James W. 
Alexander, that there came the very noblest and most 
classic expression of what the character, the real char- 
acter, of the church as a missionary organization must be. 
There was a great controversy that went on in those early 
days between Jeremiah Evarts, championing one side 
(the father of Senator William M. Evarts, and the first 
treasurer and the second secretary of the American Board 
of Commissioners for Foreign Missions), and Elijah P. 
Swift and Walter Lowrie championing the other side. 
The contention of Mr. Evarts was that the ideal of for- 
eign missionary administration was for all ecclesiastical 
organizations of America to sink their individual char- 
acter to unite in those elements that were common to 
them all, and carry on their foreign missionary activities 
under the one great common organization. It was the 
contention, on the other hand, of Elijah P. Swift and 
Walter Lowrie that the work of foreign missions could 
not be entrusted to a voluntary organization with 
which men might or might not associate themselves; 
that the foreign missionary responsibility was inherent 
in the character of the church, and that the church must 
in her own corporate capacity undertake her foreign mis- 
sionary responsibilities and that she dare not concede, or 
let her members assume, that the missionary obligation 
was optional with them ; that she must contend that by the 
very virtue of the fact they were members of the church 
they were also bound to all the missionary obligations of 
the gospel. 

It was in the Assembly of 1847 that Dr. James W. 
Alexander gave expression to that great conception. 
"Those who have gone," he said, "admitted the claim 
of Christ's cause on us as a church ; one of them espe- 
cially has left us his testimony. Consider, reverend 
brethren, these words, of date March 4, 183 1, words sug- 
gested to this court of Jesus Christ by Dr. Rice, Tn the 



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judgment of this General Assembly, one of the principal 
objects of the institution of the church by Jesus Christ 
was not so much the salvation of individual members — 
for whosoever believeth shall be saved — as the communi- 
cation of the blessings of the gospel to the destitute with 
the efficiency of united effort ;' " and then, speaking for 
himself. Dr. Alexander went on: 'The Presbyterian 
Church is a missionary society, the object of which is to 
aid in the conversion of the world, and every member of 
the church is a member for life of said society, and bound 
to do all in his power for the accomplishment of this 
object." 

Dr. Alexander gave us in those words, I think, the 
noblest statement we have of the real missionary charac- 
ter of the church. From that day down to this we have 
steadily resisted all ideas of organization which rested 
on the assumption that only those men and women in our 
church passed under the missionary obligation who vol- 
untarily did so. We have repudiated the idea that the 
missionary obligation was a matter of individual choice. 
We have contended, as this church has contended in all 
its history, that the whole organization is a missionary 
organization, and that every man and woman and child 
who passes into that organization becomes by that very 
fact a member of the great missionary society, not re- 
quiring any additional enlistment, nor open to say that 
the missionary enterprise makes no appeal to him or to 
her, but bound by the very fact of church membership to 
an obligation to share the gospel, which has come in and 
through the church, with the whole great world. 

During the century of her history, this church has stood 
for that great principle. 

In the second place, the church has demonstrated that 
fidelity to the main end and business of the church is the 
secret of spiritual vitality and success. 

Now, one might have pardoned this church almost if. 



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in those early days, it had felt that the task of foreign 
missions must be postponed until some future time. The 
city was all raw and crude, everything needed to be done 
for home development; its resources were as yet un- 
sealed. A very strong argument might have been made 
out for the position that there were no resources to be 
spared for enterprises in distant lands ; that all the capital 
the church could command was required by the exigencies 
of her situation at home, and there were not wanting in 
the organization those that took that view. Indeed, there 
was almost fear for a while that the Church of Scotland 
would entirely go over to that view. In one Assembly 
there was a great argument on that proposition, and the 
leaders of the Moderate Party in the Church of Scotland 
steadily resisted the whole missionary idea. Men must 
wait until the church at home was settled more securely on 
her own foundation, until her own home resources were 
more developed, before she ventured out into more distant 
countries. This church realized the true law of spiritual 
blessing. She realized, as Dr. Thompson has said, that 
light goes not by leaps and bounds, but steadily, and that 
what was shining far away would not have shone there, if 
it had not shone all along its route to the ends of the 
earth ; that what was to be done could not be done there 
if it were not springing forth here all the time with a 
force powerful enough to carry clear from the home lands 
to the uttermost parts of the earth. 

The church realized clearly that the only way that the 
light could shine pure and undimmed here at home ; that 
the only way she could develop power enough to deal 
with the great problems that confronted her here, was by 
kindling a light that would shine to the ends of the earth, 
and creating a power so strong that no national boundary 
could define it, so generous that it must go out as 
far as there was a human heart needing Christ's gos- 
pel. And the history of the church shows how clear 
the church's vision was of this fundamental Christian 



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principle. Was she impoverished by what she did for 
distant lands? This noble record of what she has done 
at home was only made possible by her fidelity to the law 
of spiritual life and power. She realized in her own ex- 
perience that fidelity to the great universal purpose of 
God was the one road to blessing and power in all her 
home activities. 

And, thirdly, there was one other blessing that the cen- 
tury has taught us. I speak just in a word of that. What 
a noble thing it is when men and women give themselves, 
what they are, and what they have, to noble causes! 

There rise up before our memories to-night many great 
lives which we thank God it was our privilege in little 
or in larger measure to know, made noble and glorious 
by the largeness of their sentiments, by the far-ranging 
love with which they served mankind, by the depth of 
their devotion to the great character transforming pur- 
pose of the Saviour. 

You do not breed the great character in petty activities ; 
you do not lead out to the larger life through narrow and 
constricted growths. The best character is developed 
where men and women lend themselves, nay, give them- 
selves away, to the largest and most unselfish causes, and 
many a voice calls to us out of these past years to act, ta 
rise up out of our own smallness of growth, our own nar- 
row ranges of action, our own petty and provincial out- 
look and light, to take the same clear vision which they 
took, and to enter into the same great character trans- 
forming powers that wrought upon them; for, after all, 
that is the purpose of the past. The purpose of the past 
is not to be recalled to be gloried in, not to be recalled to 
be gloated over. That past to which men tie themselves 
is a past to which men are false and untrue. Only those 
men are really true and loyal to the past who move away 
from it ; who see that it is there to be left behind, farther 
and ever farther behind ; who realize that its great pur- 
pose was simply to show men the way to a better and a. 



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larger future. And all these great achievements of the last 
one hundred years in the foreign missionary enterprise, 
and the clear discernment of the church's end and busi- 
ness, and the personal experience of the blessing that 
comes only through fidelity to that end and business, and 
the glory of character only to be reached by the devotion 
of life to great causes ; all these are only the summons and 
appeal of the past to us, to move up into a larger and a 
]greater and a more completely universal service in the 
years that come. 

AT THE CENTENNIAL RECEPTION, held Tues- 
day, December 22, 8:30 to 10:30 P. M., through the 
courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Alexander, at their 
home, 4 West Fifty-eighth Street, the following informal 
a.ddresses were made by : 
Rev. Baxter P. Fullerton, D. D. 

(Moderator of the General Assembly) 
Rev. John F. Carson, D. D. 

(Moderator of the Synod of New York) 
Rev. George Alexander, D. D. 

(Moderator of the Presbytery of New York) 
Rev. Francis L. Patton, D. D., LL. D. 

(President of Princeton Theological Seminary) 

Rev. Baxter P. FuUerton, D. D., Moderator of the Gen- 
eral Assembly, having been appropriately presented by 
the pastor, spoke as follows : 

It is my pleasing duty to bear to you the greeting of the 
One Hundred and Twentieth General Assembly of the 
Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. It 
is worth while to come, even from Oklahoma, and in a 
stage-coach, if necessary, to be the messenger from such 
a body to such a child. The meeting of the Assembly, 
the last meeting, was a very important one, because 
of the fact that it met in what was the Western outpost 
of missionary effort of the Presbyterian Church for many 
years, in a city that had been made sacred to Presbyteri- 



Mtb atienue pre^fiptetian Cftutc^ 187 

ans because of the life and work of the Rev. Dr. Timothy 
Hill, that apostle of Presbyterianism. 

The city stands on the border of the great prohibition 
State of Kansas. It is just inside of the western boundary 
of the greater State of Missouri. (I may speak it with 
pardonable pride, as a native of the soil.) The Assembly 
was a great assembly also because of the number of peo- 
ple that were in it, when one thinks of the Assembly over 
which the pastor of this church was moderator at one 
time, and the last Assembly, comparing numbers with 
numbers. 

At the last Assembly there were eight hundred and six 
commissioners, not counting the ten advisory members — 
-and it is always wise to have advisory members in an As- 
sembly — and sixteen corresponding members, making & 
total of eight hundred and thirty-two. 

There were old men present that showed the signs of 
war. There were young men that had caught the sound 
of battle, and were anxious for the fray, but they were 
Presbyterians of the same kind. They represented thirty- 
six synods, two hundred and seventy-nine Presbyteries, 
and a constituency of one million three hundred thousand 
three hundred and twenty-nine. 

It was a great Assembly, because of its national char- 
acter, by reason of the recent union of the two churches. 
The Presbyterian Church is now a national church. The 
line separating between north and south has been wiped 
out by the Presbyterian Church, and the hand of the 
North and the hand of the South are clasped over the 
chasm that an unfortunate war made. 

If the time ever was when the Presbyterian Church, of 
which we are members, could be called a provincial 
church, that day, thank God, has gone, and we now 
stretch from the frigid climate of Alaska to the palm 
groves of Porto Rico and Cuba, and from the coast of 
Maine to the Golden Gate, and we are all Presbyterians, 
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It was also a great Assembly, because it was an inter- 
national Assembly. Members were there from Chili and 
China and Cuba, and Northern and Western India, Japan, 
and Korea and Laos and Syria, all Presbyterians, and 
they came in order that they might plan for larger things- 
yet in the Presbyterian Church. 

It is this body, Mr. Chairman, and ladies and gentle- 
men, whose greetings I bring to the Fifth Avenue Church, 
and whose greetings I am proud to bear to you. 

We congratulate you, first of all, that you are a link 
in a chain that has already a hundred, and we congratu- 
late you that the strongest link in that chain, we believe, 
is the present. We congratulate you on the heritage you 
have in the men and women who have gone before you. 
They were noble sires and matrons of noble sons and 
daughters, and we thank God that you have caught the 
spirit which was so clearly manifest in them, and have 
taken the banner which they carried and have planted it 
nearer the rampart of the enemy. We congratulate you 
also, on the men who have been and the men who are 
now in the pulpit of the Fifth Avenue Church. If you 
have prided yourself on the fact that they belong to you, 
let me puncture that bubble of your pride, because they 
were greater than any one church; they were greater 
than any synod; they are the heritage of the Presby- 
terian Church in the United States of America, and the 
Presbyterian Church the world around. And may I go 
further to say, they are the heritage of Christendom, and 
have made their impress upon it in a very marked way. 

And we congratulate you on this fact, that for your 
present pastor you went toward the West — we have 
plenty more out there when you are through with this 
one. 

We congratulate you also upon the fact that in the 
providence of God, and because of his great blessings 
to you, and your wide use of these blessings, you take 
front rank in this great church in its benevolent work.. 



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That is both a cause of congratulation and it is a cause of 
humble pride. 

It is worth while for a man as moderator of the Gen- 
eral Assembly to come half across the continent to bear 
greetings to a church that, during the last fiscal year, laid 
upon the altar of God one thousand dollars a week for 
the pushing of the Kingdom of God at home, and twenty- 
five hundred dollars a month for the pushing of the King- 
dom of God abroad. 

It is worth while, indeed, for the moderator to stop in 
a busy life and come half way across the continent, and 
say, in the name of the General Assembly, which has put 
upon me the highest honor it can put upon any man, 
^'God bless you and God speed you and your work." 

Now, my closing remark, ladies and gentlemen, is this : 
I am sure that I voice the sentiments of the General As- 
sembly, and the great church of which you are a dis- 
tinguished member, when I say we pray that the splendid 
history which is back of you may be dimmed only by the 
more splendid history which you are to make in the im- 
mediate future and the days to come. 

Never was there a time when the influence of the Chris- 
tian church meant more for the betterment of mankind 
than at this present time. Never was there a time when 
influences started in the United States of America were 
more potent, all about the world, than they are to-day; 
and, Mr. Pastor and members of the Fifth Avenue 
Church, I congratulate you that you stand in the very 
front ranks of the great church which to-day, about the 
world, is holding forth with no uncertain sound the word 
of God, and is pushing forward with a mighty movement 
in favor of the evangelization of the world. 

In the name of the Assembly, which has honored me 
with this office, and in the name of the whole church, I 
bid you Godspeed and wish you God's blessing. 

Rev. John F. Carson, D. D., Moderator of the Synod 



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of New York, spoke for that body, for Brooklyn, and for 
himself as a friend of our church and its work : 

I assure you that it is a very great pleasure to respond 
to the threefold announcement. I bring a personal greet- 
ing, I bring a greeting from the churches of Brooklyn, 
the pious end of the bridge; and I bring also greetings 
from the Synod of New York. 

I do not know much about the Synod. This moderator- 
ship is rather an unusual thing for me. If some of the 
gentlemen whom I see present here to-night were to 
speak for the Synod (I do not know how many times 
some of them have been moderators in one capacity or 
another), they would be able tO' tell you something about 
the Synod, but I know very little about it. By some ac- 
cident or another, I was elected moderator of the Synod 
of New York, and I assure you it is a great joy to me 
that the term of my office covers the period of the cele- 
bration of the hundredth anniversary of this great church. 

I bring you, however, as moderator, I am confident, the 
hearty greeting and felicitation of every Presbyterian 
church, of every Presbyterian minister, and every Presby- 
terian church member throughout the State of New York 
and New England. 

The relation of the Fifth Avenue Church to the work 
of the Synod of New York is so well known that I need 
not attempt to repeat the story. If I did, it would mean 
the repetition of statistics, and I am not very good at 
doing that. I remember a story, if it would not break the 
dignity of this splendid occasion to tell a story, that is 
told about a little girl in Brooklyn. (Of course, I have 
to go to Brooklyn for good things, you know, in the story 
line.) We have a custom in Brooklyn of charging half 
fare for children under twelve years of age who ride on 
our cars. This little girl was riding one day, and handed 
her three cents to the conductor. He looked at her and 
said, "The fare is five cents." She looked up at him, and 



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she said, "I never paid anything but three cents." And^ 
looking very earnestly at her for a moment, he said, 
**How old are you ?" And the little girl cast an indignant 
look into the face of the conductor, opened her little purse, 
handed out her nickel, and said, "There, sir, I will pay my 
fare, and I will keep my statistics to myself." 

Well, I fancy I would rather keep these statistics to 
myself to-night; but I assure you that the great Fifth 
Avenue Church has been a potent factor and has been 
a dominant force in the Presbyterianism, not of New 
York State alone, but of this entire country, and as we 
look for a reason for this, I think that we can find it in 
the attitude of the church, and in the attitude of the pul- 
pit of the Fifth Avenue Church. That pulpit has ever 
been strong and true and steadfast in the maintenance of 
those fundamental principles which give sufficient war- 
rant for the church's existence, and those basic truths in 
which repose the faith and the hope of the ages, and of 
humanity. 

In face of the changing thoughts of men, in these swirl- 
ing eddies of speculation, and of the development so 
called of new phases of truth, the pulpit of the Fifth 
Avenue Presbyterian Church has never vacillated, and, in 
its steadfast adherence to the faith, once for all delivered 
to the saints in the first century and sufficient to meet the 
intellectual and spiritual needs of the saints of the twen- 
tieth century, in adhering to that old faith and that old 
gospel, the Fifth Avenue Church has become a force for 
God in this country that it never could have been if its 
pulpit had been vacillating and uncertain in its adherence 
to divine truth and the proclamation of that truth. 

My friends, I think I can say this confidently, that the 
pulpit of the Fifth Avenue Church has been a blessing 
to the churches and the ministers of America. It has told 
our ministers that a man can hold and preach the old 
truths and continue to preach them, and his church, under 
his administration, will be strong and influential and at- 



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tractive. There has been no following of these popular 
fads and isms; there has been no bowing down to the 
vagaries of thought or of method in your great church, 
and I believe God has blessed it for its fidelity to truth, 
and for its advocacy of the great principles of our faith. 

Your adherence to an evangelical and evangelistical, to 
a conservative and aggressive Christianity under God, has 
been the secret of your prosperity through these hundred 
years. 

From the very beginning, the Fifth Avenue Church 
has been an important force in the life of our church, and 
in the lives of the churches of Christ of every name. 

I congratulate you. I congratulate you, not only on 
what has been, but on what is at the present time. You 
have had great men in the pulpit of the Fifth Avenue 
Church, and I rejoice with you to-night that in the holy 
succession of these apostles you have J. Ross Stevenson 
as your minister to-day. 

We sometimes cannot say before a man's face what we 
do say behind his back, but I think I will not violate any 
of the proprieties of this occasion if I voice what I know 
to be the sentiments of the ministers of our church, and 
especially of the younger men of the church, with whom 
I have come more or less into touch as a father in Israel, 
that these men prize and honor this man of God who is 
your pastor, because he stands four-square against every 
form and phase of destructive thought, and that he stands 
as the aggressive leader of every forward movement in 
our Presbyterian Church, and we rejoice that in a church 
that is so influential in giving tone and direction to many 
of the tendencies of our Presbyterian Church life, we 
have one whose ministry rings ever true. And I rejoice 
that associated with him is Dr. Hallenbeck, whose work 
in Brooklyn and whose work in Buffalo is being repeated 
in New York, in its impress upon our evangelization. 

My friends, the great work of the Fifth Avenue Church 
is extending far beyond your own walls ; it is touching the 



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life of all our church, and helping ministers and churches. 

Let me close by expressing once more my greeting to 
you. My deep rejoicing I know is joined in by ministers 
everywhere, that this great church comes to the end of 
these hundred years of honored history and stands forth 
with as fair and fine a front to her work, with as fresh 
and fervent enthusiasm for her work, with as various 
and vigorous an equipment of thought and resources of 
spirit, with as sane and strong a leadership in its min- 
isters and in its officials as the Fifth Avenue Church ever 
had in any period of its history. 

May God grant that under this leadership, and with 
this equipment, and through this inspiration, and en- 
thusiasm, you may be able to accomplish even greater 
things until He comes to whose will we all bow, and 
whom we serve. 

Rev. George Alexander, D. D., then spoke as Mod- 
erator of the Presbytery of New York : 

Kind friends of the Fifth Avenue Church, I accidentally 
encountered your pastor last evening, and he made a 
statement which, for the moment, staggered me. He put 
forward the claim that he was my father-in-law, and went 
on to prove it to his own satisfaction and to mine. It 
is no longer possible to conceal the fact. I now frankly 
confess that having posed all these years as a celibate, I 
have, for a quarter of a century, been happily wedded to 
a daughter of this church, the gracious daughter of a 
gracious mother! Therefore, I pay such respects to my 
new father-in-law as is due to one who has so recently 
married into the family, but my real tribute of gratitude 
and respect I reserve to lay at the feet of my blessed and 
benignant one-hundred-year-old mother-in-law. 

Having these filial relations, I consider it a peculiar 
privilege that I am permitted, as presiding officer of the 
Presbytery of New York, for the time being, to voice 
the congratulations of her one hundred and eighty Pres- 



194 Centennial Celefiration of tfte 

byterian ministers, and her more than thirty thousand 
Presbyterian people. 

Adequately to voiee those congratulations would re- 
quire the gift of tongues, for on each Lord's Day, under 
the auspices of the Presbytery of New York, the gospel 
is proclaimed to Presbyterian congregations, not only in 
English and French and German, but in Italian and Bo- 
hemian and Chinese, for the new world greets the old 
world thronging all its streets. 

The Presbytery of New York is the successor of. the 
Presbytery which installed Dr. Romeyn, when he came 
down from Schenectady. It installed him in April, 1809. 
Meanwhile that Presbytery has become far less extensive 
and far more intensive. Then, it included quite a large 
section of New Jersey and of Long Island and east of 
the Hudson a region extending almost halfway to Al- 
bany. Now, it is restricted to the boroughs of Manhattan 
and The Bronx and Richmond, but within those bounda- 
ries it includes about seventy churches and chapels and 
I missions, not one of which has failed to feel the throb 
of this church's corporate life, and to be quickened by it. 

We rejoice in your past. We glory in the achieve- 
ments of this church and count them as in a certain sense 
our own. But I am not going to indulge in compliments, 
either to this church or to her pastor. Probably you have 
had as many compliments during the last few days as are 
good for you. I desire rather to say that we shall look 
to this church for leadership in the coming days, for there 
are serious days before us. The City of New York pre- 
sents to the church of New York an aspect that is at once 
inspiring and appalling. Great perils confront us; great 
opportunities are beckoning us. We are feeling the thrust 
of forces which our fathers never dreamed of. We need 
to cast ourselves afresh on the merit and mercy of our 
Saviour and upon the strong arm of our God and in that 
strength to go forward. We need a broader vision. We 
need a keener sympathy with Christ. We need a larger, 



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fuller, stronger, more triumphant faith in the God of our 
fathers — 

"Our fathers' God, from out whose hand, 
The centuries fall like grains of sand !" 

The closing address was by Rev. Francis L. Patton, 
D. D., LL. D., President of Princeton Theological Semi- 
nary, who spoke, in substance, as follows : 

It is a great pleasure and a great privilege to me to be 
here to-night, and both the privilege and the pleasure are 
greatly enhanced by the opportunity that is afforded me 
of speaking. Dr. Stevenson has, I think somewhat with- 
out warrant, intimated that my speech is prepared. I 
think I ought to say, however, that prepared or not, it is 
to be given under the strict delimitation of territory in 
respect to which I received very definite instruction. 
What I have to say will, so far as within me lies, be 
within the limit of the inhospitable boundaries that were 
assigned me. 

I have always regarded the dinner party as the bright 
and sunny flower of our social civilization, but I am in- 
clined to think that it must divide the honors hereafter 
at least with the afternoon tea and the church sociable. 
I have always had an idea as to what the principle should 
be that should underlie and be the controlling element in 
the making of a speech at such functions. This principle 
has been violated, in my judgment, by the speeches that 
have been delivered to-night. I shall endeavor to adhere 
strictly to what I regard as the true formula of speeches 
of this nature; that formula being three drops of pure 
thought diluted with two ounces of distilled rhetoric. 

Of course, I realize that I am here, not by virtue of any 
personal right to be here, but I am here in a representa- 
tive capacity, and yet, if I feel a certain sense of personal 
relationship to this meeting, aside from my representative 
position, you must take the entire blame to yourselves, 
and explain it on the ground of your kindness to me. 



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It is a long time since I sat for the first time in the 
pulpit of the Fifth Avenue Church. Of course, in the 
early days, when I was in the habit of preaching in the 
Fifth Avenue Church, my preaching was in the summer- 
time, when everybody belonging to the church was away, 
but I have since then procured for myself a good seat, 
and I am allowed to come in occasionally in the winter- 
time. I see before me faces (or I would see if I were 
not subject to suffering from defective vision) that are 
very familiar to me. 

Now, it is to me a matter of very great gratification 
that in the cathedralizing processes that have been going 
on during the past two or three years I have sustained 
to you the relation of canon residentiary during the period 
of a month, and, what is more surprising still, I have 
the prospect of a renewed incumbency during the coming 
year. I make that remark, however, coupled with the 
further remark that I am fully aware of the unwritten 
law with respect to ''third terms," and will govern myself 
accordingly. 

It has occurred to me more than once, and long before 
this church entered upon this sort of work, that the par- 
ticular work to which I refer is a work that ought to be 
done, and that there ought to be one great church with 
this cathedralizing tendency in every great city, and that 
there is no denomination so well fitted to do this work as 
the denomination to which we have the honor to belong ; 
for it seems to me that there are three things at least that 
ought to be done by those churches that have the capacity 
for doing it. There is, of course, the great congregation 
of families, who worship on Sunday morning in the 
church, who wish, and very properly wish, to hear their 
own minister— and to hear nobody else — so his ministra- 
tion will be directed very largely by the exigencies that 
are known to him, as they are known to nobody else, as 
they emerge in the lives of those committed to his charge. 
It is a very well understood thing — and I fully appreciate 



jFiftI) atjenue pte06pterian Cl)ur(t) 19:?: 

the feeling on the part of those who entertain this feeling 
— that the Sunday morning sermon is no occasion for the 
exploiting of recent heresy, or the discussion of minute 
points in metaphysics or history or theology, even though 
it be true that you have had four pastors who have been 
professors of theology, and that your present pastor is 
himself a learned professor of church history ; but at the 
same time there are, outside of the congregation, and per- 
haps there may be some inside — but there are, in a great 
city like this, people belonging to all the churches to whom 
questions of interest appeal, and in respect to whom it 
can be said, I think, that it would be an interesting thing 
to hear some of these issues in modern thought, as they 
bear upon the speculative life, as well as the Christian 
life, to have these things discussed. Then there is a large 
class of people who do not belong to the church, and of 
whom it can be said that it is a matter of great moment 
that they should be brought into relationship with the 
church. Therefore, when that evening service is devoted 
to specifically evangelistic work, it seems to me that, for 
a part of the year at least, you have distributed the work 
of the church as well as it could be very well distributed 
in the three respects to which I have referred. And I do 
not hesitate to say that with the multifarious duties with 
which every minister is charged, it is simply asking the 
impossible to ask any one man to do all this work. 

Now I think I know something about the difficulties of 
preaching. I think that any man who has been preaching 
forty years knows something about the difficulties of 
preaching. And I have sometimes thought that the peo- 
ple do not; that is, I mean, a great many. In that re- 
spect, perhaps, I cannot see things from their point of 
view, but, as I see them, it seems to me as though preach- 
ing were never so difficult as it is to-day. The tact, the 
insight, the breadth of horizon, the variety of knowledge, 
the charm of expression, the subtlety of thought that an 
ordinary congregation expect and have, in a great church 



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every Sunday morning, is something of which I venture 
to say the fathers knew little or nothing, comparatively. 

I say that I can understand the difficulty under which 
the minister of to-day is laboring. I do not experience 
those difficulties. I know preaching is easy to me. But 
everybody is not like me. I will tell you why it is easy 
for me. The minister of a congregation cuts out his 
sermon on Thursday, let us say; pastes it together on 
Friday, fixes it up on Saturday, and rain or shine, no 
matter what happens, has to deliver the goods on Sunday 
morning. 

Now, it is quite otherwise with me. I have no obliga- 
tions of that sort. When I get ready to preach a sermon, 
I simply send notice, put it in the paper, serve notice on 
the congregation that that sermon is ready, and that they 
will please come to-morrow morning and be fitted. And 
when they come, why, I alter the sermon, after I have 
tried it on them ; fix up the sleeve, take it up in the collar, 
take a little off the length (they generally ask that). 
When I have done that four or five times, the sermon is 
a fairly good sermon, and I go around and preach it, and 
by the time I have preached it fifty times, you can wake 
me up in the night and I can deliver it. That is the way 
to preach. But the pastor has no sinecure now, as I 
say. 

I realize I am here to-night in my representative ca- 
pacity, and I bring you the very cordial greetings of the 
Princeton Theological Seminary, and I bring with those 
greetings the very grateful recognition of the large place 
that Princeton Seminary has had in the thought of the 
Fifth Avenue Church, of the great help the Fifth Avenue 
Church has been to the Princeton Seminary. These rela- 
tions, of course, as you have already heard, have been 
very close and very intimate. You are one hundred years 
old. Princeton Seminary is ninety-seven years old. Dur- 
ing all the ninety-seven years of her history she has been 
in very close touch with the Fifth Avenue Church. We 



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have given you two ministers out of our faculty. We 
sent to you Dr. James W. Alexander, the prince of 
preachers, a distinguished man in a distinguished family, 
and we sent to you later on Dr. Purves, great as a preach- 
er, great also as a New Testament scholar; equally dis- 
tinguished in both spheres. 

We have to-day in the directorate of Princeton Semi- 
nary two sons of the Fifth Avenue Church, Dr. William 
Irwin and Dr. Maitland Alexander. We had, as long 
as he lived, a devoted trustee in Mr. Sinclair. We have 
in the directorship of Princeton Seminary to-day three 
members of this church, three connected with this church, 
and Dr. Stevenson, the minister, for we always regard 
the minister of the Fifth Avenue Church as ex-officio a 
member of Princeton Seminary; and we tried to get one 
of the sons of this church to take a professorship at 
Princeton Seminary. We labored hard, and we hoped 
for the best; but after laboring as long as we thought it 
was kind to him to labor, we desisted, and Dr. Maitland 
Alexander declined our call. 

My heart regrets, but my reason cannot disapprove, 
when I remember the splendid work which he is doing 
in Pittsburg, and possibly ( I do not know ; he did not say 
this to me) I have sometimes thought that it may be that 
his mind went back to his uncle, who did come back from 
a pastorate to a professorship, and then went back to 
the pastorate. This was his feeling, I dare say, and if 
that was the feeling, I could not gainsay it, for, after all, 
the pulpit is "the minister's throne," and there is no place 
where a man can do so much good, if he can preach, as in 
the pulpit. Dr. Alexander is doing that great work in 
Pittsburg. 

Now, of course, as we had communicated to you of our 
spiritual things, it was but meet that you should com- 
municate to us of your carnal things, and you have done 
so, and with great liberality. I do not pretend to know 
just how all the endowments of Princeton Seminary came. 



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but I will say this, that if you should take out of the treas- 
ury of the Princeton Seminary all the money that came 
from the First Church through Mr. Lenox and Mrs. 
Winthrop, and all the money that came from the Fifth 
Avenue Church from Messrs. R. L. and A. Stuart and 
others, it would be a very meager endowment left. 

Now, I want to say that I appreciate everything that 
has been said here to-night, with respect to the splendid 
work which this church has done, not only in evangelism, 
but also in the position she has taken of steadfast devo- 
tion to sound doctrine. I do not mean by sound doctrine 
all the shibboleths that have passed for such in the doc- 
trinal discussions of a hundred years; for one hundred 
years ago, and even to a date well nigh within the borders 
of the present century, we were ready for controversy 
on almost anything, and it seems to me that a very great 
change has come over the spirit of our dream. 

Then, so it was a controversy, we did not care. Now, 
no matter what the controversy is, and how big a dis- 
cussion, we do not seem to care, and indifference is be- 
ginning to take the place of that lively interest in theology 
that put every one in the attitude of one spoiling for a 
fight. 

Now, I am frank to say that the time never existed 
when the issues before the church, issues that underlie all 
Christianity, not talking about Presbyterians, not talking 
about Episcopalians, not even talking about the differences 
that separate the Roman Catholic from the Protestant 
Church — I am saying that the issues are issues that un- 
derlie our spiritual life; that this Christmas I am quite 
willing to stake the whole controversy upon this single 
question as to whether we are here under the gospel of 
Christ, or whether we have simply a gospel of good na- 
ture ; whether the mystery of the incarnation is to be re- 
solved into the myth of Santa Claus! Whether we im- 
peach supreme divinity or not, it would be besmirching 
the real humanity. Three hundred years ago, and a little 



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less, John Milton stated the whole issue in a wonderful 
line, "Of wedded maid and virgin mother born," and to 
dispute either premise in that sentence is to destroy the 
incarnation. 

So I congratulate you as you stand upon the threshold 
of another century of the ecclesiastical life. And I trust 
that since Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to-day, and 
forever, this church, for one hundred years to come, will 
be found bearing the same testimony that it has been 
bearing these one hundred years agone, in the faith which 
was once for all delivered to the saints ! 



On Wednesday evening, in the Lecture Room, the clo- 
sing exercises of the celebration were held, consisting of 
singing and prayer, with brief addresses by two sons 
of the church who have gone into the ministry. "The 
Church and the Winning of Souls" was the topic given 
to Rev. Maitland Alexander, D. D., of Pittsburg, Pa. 
"The Church and the Winning of Souls" 

Rev. Maitland Alexander, D. D. 

I am sure you all recognize the fact there are certain 
things in life which make an indelible impression on the 
individual life ; that there are many things that are ab- 
sorbed into a man's life, rather than talked in, and that 
there are certain demonstrations of power which he sees 
from time to time, which leave their effect, which effect 
he never gets over, no matter where he goes or what he 
does. It is very rarely that a man has an opportunity, 
such as that just afforded me here this evening, of coming 
back under the influence of a church that has done so 
much for him, to express in a very feeble way how great 
that debt is. 

We talk a great deal to-day about what we could 
do with society if the home could be made ideal; and I 
believe that the same results which are accomplished on 
the young life in a good home are accomplished on the. 



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young life in a good church. And as I have gone out 
from the walls of this church, and entered upon my own 
responsibilities and my own duties, and my own cares in 
the various work to which I have been called, I can say 
with the greatest honesty, and with the deepest sincerity, 
that the influence of my training in this church in every 
way has been to me an ideal which I have tried to live 
up to and follow, taking my inspiration from those things 
which have made this church great. 

Some men, when they go away and come to their own 
work, make comparisons between their church and the 
church in which they have been reared ; and in many in- 
stances I think men say that their work and the way they 
do their work is better than the way in which it was done 
in their old home church. 

It has been always a source of great gratification to me 
that I could look back to this church that carried out a 
policy, that presented a gospel, and that was characterized 
by an efficiency which would always be to me the summit 
of my ambition, rather than something that I might im- 
prove upon, and when I think back, as I often do, to the 
days when I went here to church, under the ministry of 
Dr. Hall, I gained from him the things that have always 
been to me the best equipment that I have ever had of 
any kind. 

When I realize how much inspiration comes to me to- 
day from the breadth of the vision of this church, and 
its splendid conception of what it is called to do; when 
I think about the influence of its pulpit and the great re- 
sults achieved in the men that have served as its min- 
isters ; in conversions that have resulted from that min- 
istry, and, above all, in the splendid conservative con- 
struction of character which has been made possible 
through its ministry ; I am glad and proud that I can look 
back and say to myself that I was trained in this church, 
that I was received into its membership, that I shared in 
its work, and, above all, that I sat under the instruction 



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of a man like Dr. Hall, who, to me, has ever been the 
epitome of strength and power and grace and effective- 
ness in the American pulpit. 

I have been assigned the subject, "The Church and the 
Winning of Souls," and I feel in the few minutes I have 
to stay to-night I would like to speak of that subject as 
illustrating the way in which this church has ever been 
a soul-winning church. For my own part, I believe that 
a church can only carry out that great and primary work 
which has been committed to it, through the effective 
presentation of the gospel of Jesus Christ from its pulpit, 
and I think that the moment that the pulpit gives way 
to anything else, in the form of organized work, or any 
other things, it weakens its powers and it weakens its 
efficiency in the conversion of men. 

If you will pardon just a word, I do not believe that 
any one who ever listened to some of the sermons that 
were preached in this church when I attended it could 
ever doubt for a moment that that kind of preaching of 
that kind of truth, and that kind of presentation, is the 
best and most efficient method in the world of winning 
men to Jesus Christ. 

I do not doubt that some of you who are listening to 
me here could remember the sermons I have thought of 
from time to time, that I have heard preached here, the 
text and analysis of which have never left me. When 
Dr. Hall preached on themes like this, there was no man 
or woman that ever left that church without having 
impressed upon them the great fundamental truths by 
which men were made to see Jesus Christ and compelled 
to ally themselves to him there, forever, by reason of the 
constraining power of the Christ. I do not ever remem- 
ber in my life hearing Dr. Hall preach a sermon on what 
we call to-day modern church work. I do not know 
whether any of you ever heard him do it. I do not think 
I ever did, but I realize this fact as I never realized it be- 
fore, and I have demonstrated it again and again to my 



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own satisfaction, that when a man preaches the gospel of 
Christ to men, earnestly, efficiently, sympathetically, but 
honestly, there is not any need to preach these other 
things. They follow in the train of these great funda- 
mental things that belong to the Kingdom, and so I say 
you may have everything in the world in connection with 
your church, and every kind of organization (the church 
which I serve to-day I suppose is thoroughly organized 
along the lines of what we might call institutional church 
work, and has a great cosmopolitan crowd that is allied 
to it ; men of every grade, men of every strata of educa- 
tion, men of every social position, a mixed multitude, and 
we try to provide for them everything that we can pro- 
vide to bring them into the fellowship and interest of the 
church) ; but you can have every sort of organization in 
the world, and they will pass it by and never touch it, but 
the one thing that draws men, that produces (if you 
choose to call it) a crowd, is the presentation of the sim- 
ple gospel of Christ in its fundamental character, and 
when you preach it, men come to hear it, and they do not 
come for any other thing that I know of in heaven and 
in earth. 

This church has been characterized by that preaching, 
and is characterized by that kind of preaching to-day. It 
has always been. It is the one thing that this church has 
stood for more than any other, namely, the power of its 
pulpit, and for the power of that pulpit I stand here to- 
night, and if I was to bear my testimony to the efficiency 
of this church, it would be this : I have tried with all my 
might to carry out the things committed to me and laid 
to my charge again and again as a Christian man and a 
Christian minister by him under whose pastorate I live, 
and I bear witness to-day that any results that have ever 
come from any ministry that I may have had to the glory 
of God have come through the application of these great 
fundamental instructions. So I stand to-day, to witness 
for this thing, and to say to you here to-night, that if this 



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church shall proceed along these lines, as I hope and pray 
it may, that I believe it holds the secret to the great 
evangelical movement by which the world is to be re- 
deemed. 

And one thing more: I believe that this church has 
been characterized in its preaching by another thing which 
makes for the salvation of men through the individual 
work of others; namely, the upbuilding of the spiritual 
life of Christians, to such an extent that the power of that 
spiritual life constrains them to do the things for Christ's 
sake that they will not do for any other reason in the 
world. How shall we make men, individual men, lay- 
men and women, winners of the souls of other men? 
Shall we urge upon them the necessity of going out and 
bringing in those that are without the church? Well, 
you may urge, but it will do very little good. Shall we 
talk about Christian activities and the development of our 
Christian forces? You may, but I doubt if it makes a 
lasting impression. I believe the only way that that can 
be done is by laying upon the consciences of men their 
relationship to God, and when that relationship by the 
Holy Spirit has been made a vital relationship, there 
will be no need any longer to talk about the activi- 
ties of the various church agencies or the necessity 
for doing personal work for Christ's sake, because, 
when a man stands in that relation to the Lord Jesus 
Christ that the early disciples stood to him; when they 
have come and seen the things which he has provided 
for their spiritual growth; when they have entered into 
that mystical fellowship with him that comes from the 
surrender of heart and life to him, there will be no need 
for any more of that kind of preaching, but, like Andrew 
and Philip and the other disciples, they will be bringing 
those to see him whom they have come to know, and, 
knowing aright, have life eternal through him. 

Might I wish this church Godspeed in the years that 
are to come; that the same measure of blessings may 



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come to you in the future that has crowned this church 
in the past. And may I say to you here to-night, as I say 
sometimes to my own people, that this is the kind of a 
church that ought to send its sons into the ministry, and 
this is the kind of a church that furnishes the atmosphere 
for ministers who will be acceptable to the churches whom 
they serve, and for the greater work, the greatest work 
of the world, is the winning of souls, and the greatest 
work in the winning of souls for this church might be in 
the presentation of many men given, sent forth with its 
inspiration and blessed with the experiences that every 
member of this church enjoys. 



"The Church and the Purification of Society" 

Rev. Henry S. Coffin, D. D. 

I am sure I can say amen to every word that Dr. Alex- 
ander has said, and said so eloquently here, to-night. I 
was thinking, as I looked forward to this meeting, what 
were the things that I could recall for which I was most 
indebted to this church, and when I began to think of 
them, I simply could never finish the list, but it seems to 
me that four things stood out with especial clearness. 

The first was that here I had the great privilege of 
being reared and trained under a ministry that was not 
only persuasive, as Dr. Alexander has said, but was also 
in the truest sense of the word educational ; how true this 
is those of us who remember Dr. Hall well know. Dn 
Hall thought he had never even properly started a ser- 
mon until he had not only given us the text, but had ex- 
plained the context, that we might enter into the man's 
mind and might know the situation of the hearer. So 
that our knowledge of the Bible grew from Simday to 
Sunday, as we came and listened to what he had to say. 

I remembered to-night, as I came along here, how fre- 
quently Dr. Hall, in one of his splendid sermons, would 
stop and say, "In order that I may make this clear to the 



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youngest hearers here, let me use an illustration." One 
time I recall he quoted the line, "See that you walk cir- 
cumspectly." It occurred to me to-night as I came along. 
He said, "You boys and girls know how, when ice is 
forming on the sidewalk in the cold weather, when you 
go along, you have to see where you are putting your feet, 
lest you slip. Now, that is exactly what the apostle meant 
when he said, 'See that you walk circumspectly.' " That 
has stuck in my mind until this time. 

In the second place, we had in this congregation a 
magnificent training school for Christian service. I can- 
not be too grateful for the lessons given me in the Young 
People's Association in this church. I very well remem- 
ber when, as a young boy of fourteen, I was asked to take 
part in a meeting which was to be led by one of your 
present leaders, Mr. Gillies, and I demurred; I did not 
know what I should say and how I should say it, and 
one of those to whom I owe personally a large debt of 
gratitude, and who is here present to-night, Mrs. Henry 
M. Alexander, took me to her home and had me stand 
up at one end of her library, and say over to her what I 
intended to say the following Sunday morning. That 
was my first lesson in homiletics, and if I have any value 
in teaching homiletics to-day, I owe it in no small part 
to the lessons given me in this church. 

In the third place, we who had our minds turned at all 
toward the ministry had incarnated before us in Dr. John 
Hall, as Dr. Alexander has just said, the beau ideal of all 
we wanted to be. I remember reading a few weeks ago,, 
in one of James Russell Lowell's letters, written as a 
young fellow when he was a student at a law school in 
Cambridge, the statement that he had gotten sick of the 
study of law, and determined to stop it and go into the 
study of something else, and he passed by the court- 
house in Boston one day, went in and heard Daniel Web- 
ster speaking, and this was the entry he made in his 
journal, "I had not been there above half an hour before. 



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I determined to go back to my books, and study as hard 
as I could." It was a calling incarnated in a devotee that 
cast its spell over him. Sometimes, as I go about trying 
to do my work in this city to-day, I simply think with 
amazement of Dr. John Hall, the amount of work that 
he carried on single-handed in this place, the number of 
Boards he served, the number of prominent institutions 
he represented, the work outside, simply numberless calls 
upon his time and attention ; and then to think how week 
by week he went from the one end of Manhattan Island 
to another, calling on all the members of his congregation, 
announcing to you, as you remember so well, that on 
Tuesday next, God willing, he would call on all of his 
families in East Thirty-seventh Street, for instance. You 
remember how persistent a ministry that was. How he 
did it, and kept the pulpit of this church the blessing and 
power it was, is to me simply a miracle, nothing less. 
Then I think also how embodied in him we had the dig- 
nity of the ministry. James Russell Lowell said some- 
where, "And where you go, men shall think they walk 
in holy cathedrals." That was the atmosphere, as you 
and I know, that Dr. Hall carried with him. One felt the 
church was there when Dr. Hall was there. It was his 
presence. And then one thing more: we were meeting 
in this church under a ministry, as Dr. Alexander said, 
where personal evangelization was kept to the fore all the 
time. How well I remember in the years before, as each 
succeeding communion set came, Mr. Fraser, our Sunday 
School superintendent, would plead with us boys and girls 
to give our lives, consecrate them to the cause of Jesus 
Christ, and you remember so well there, at the Lord's 
Table, how, after the communion had been served. Dr. 
Hall was never satisfied until he had turned to those 
young people in the gallery, around about, and made an 
appeal to us. We had seen what Christ's followers were 
doing, we had heard the solemn vows of dedication and 
consecration that all that assembly made in this act. Now, 



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were we going to place our lives in the hands of Him 
whom they loved ? And the verses he used to use at the 
Communion Table; how they abide in my memory to- 
day. I always connect one verse of St. Paul with Dr. 
Hall, in particular, "Whether we live, we live unto the 
Lord, and whether we die, we die unto the Lord. Wheth- 
er, therefore, we live or die, we are the Lord's." It was 
the inspiration of his love; it was the contagion of his 
personality. 

Now you have assigned me to-night a theme which I 
believe first was assigned to one who is far better fitted 
to speak on it than I am, "The Church and the Purifica- 
tion of Society." 

The God-head is to be brought into the world in two 
ways. Men are to be reached from the inside out, and 
from the outside in. When there is a typhoid epidemic, 
there are two things to be done; first, the individual pa- 
tients are to be cared for one by one, through the hospital 
nurse and doctor, and that is the mission of the church 
as a soul-saver; but fhere is something further to be 
done. There is an investigation to be made into the drain- 
age system of the city, its milk supply and its water sup- 
ply are to be tested, and if possible the source of the 
disease found and eradicated. 

The city of humanity is sin-sick and selfishness-sick, 
and there are two things for the church of Jesus Christ 
to do ; winning individuals one by one, curing their mala- 
dies, and placing within them the spirit of Jesus Christ; 
but that is but one part of the church's mission. 

The church's mission is to transform society so that 
there shall be less opportunity for sin, less contacts of 
selfishness upon the humble life. We know very well to 
have a patient taken under medical care, and then put out 
to drink the contaminated water again and the contami- 
nated milk, might be only to cause a reinfection by the 
disease. 

Boys and girls come forward to the Lord's table and 



210 Centennial Celebration of tfie 

consecrate themselves to Jesus Christ, and are told that 
they are to live no longer unto themselves, but unto him ; 
like the son of man, they are to go out and minister their 
lives in the spirit of sympathy and service. They go out 
in the business world, and what this business world is to- 
day we very well know. The business world of to-day is 
founded upon greed first of all, cutthroat competition ; in. 
the business world we are to push others back, and push 
ourselves forward, and in the second place in the business 
world you are to work for what comes to you ; your 
profits, your wage, whatever that might be. In the third 
place, selfish ownership; whatever you control is yours 
to do with as you please, provided you do not break the 
somewhat elastic laws of society. 

A boy goes forward and consecrates himself to Jesus 
Christ as a Christian. He goes out into the political life 
of to-day, and what does he find? He finds two great 
parties debating, for instance, the tariff question; one 
party advancing the cause of protection on the ground 
that it is to the best interests of American workingmen 
and American manufacturers; the other party possibly 
advancing free trade for the same reason; neither party 
saying one word about what is to the advantage of the 
merchants and workingmen of other countries. The in- 
dividual is to love his neighbor as himself, but we have 
not yet got to the place where we hold up the statement 
that the nations shall love their neighbors as themselves, 
and any tariff that is in the faintest degree a Christian 
tariff must be a tariff framed with regard to the working- 
men of other nations as truly as our own. 

The Bible looks upon life as being transformed from 
two points of view. We have the message put in this 
way, "You must be born again ;" one by one, that is, by a 
personal act of consecration to Jesus Christ. Yet you 
must be born again. And then social birth. ^'I, John,^ 
saw the holy city coming down from God out of heaven, 
made ready as a bride adorned for her husband," and 



jfiftft atienue Pte06pterian Cfiurci) 211 

we have a saying that if the holy city were to be brought 
in here and New York become a new New York, we 
would not have the same difficulty with the children of 
another generation that we have had with the children of 
the past in bringing them under the spell of the spirit of 
Jesus Christ ; and so the church of Jesus Christ has not 
only its message for the individual, but it has its message 
:ror society. 

Business must not stand for cutthroat competition, but 
for co-operation with Jesus Christ; never pushing your 
neighbor down, but working with him and for brother- 
hood, working for the joy of service. 

First say, "Thy will be done, my Father," and then, 
**Give me this day my daily bread ;" and instead of selfish 
ownership, stewardship for the whole brotherhood of 
God's children, of all that comes within one's control. 

The nation can hold up the ideal service just as truly 
as any individual, and political parties could seek votes 
on the basis of which party is holding up the business of 
the Kingdom; which party promises to take our nation 
and transform it into the mightiest engine to bring in 
the kingdom of justice and kindness and faithfulness in 
this earth, for which Jesus Christ laid down his life. It 
is the church's duty to-day not merely to hold up Jesus 
Christ as the Saviour of the individual, but to hold up to 
the nation Christ's own greatness, the Kingdom of God, 
the social salvation which he came to proclaim ; that all 
men collectively, not merely individuals, may be born 
again of the life of love, of service, and of brotherhood. 

The characteristic book of the individualistic type of 
piety is "The Pilgrim's Progress," where one individual 
sets out from the city of destruction and goes through 
all its perilous journey, until at last he finds himself safely 
in the celestial city. 

The characteristic message of the Kingdom of God as 
Jesus conceived it was quite different from that. It was 
that this city of destruction should itself be taken and 



212 Centennial Celefiration of tfte 

transformed by the communicating of the life of the ce- 
lestial city, until there was a celestial city at both ends 
of the line; the celestial city below duplicating the celes- 
tial city above, and a new earth no less than a new 
heaven. 

At this Christmas season you and I remember the in- 
carnation in one life of the man Jesus, but that was not a 
unique event ; Jesus Christ was merely to be the first bom 
among the brethren and his was the duty of priority ; in 
him dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead bodily ; not that 
he might possess it as a monopoly, but that in him we 
might be made free, and the incarnation to which we 
look forward to-day is the social incarnation, when God 
who was once in one human life shall be, as St. Paul puts 
it in his remarks of the fifteenth of the first Corinthians, 
"When God shall be all in all." And so the message I 
would bring to-night is this : That while the church of to- 
day must, with all the zeal and persuasiveness of the 
church of yesterday, strive to bring individuals one by 
one to Jesus Christ, it must simultaneously proclaim the 
social evangel of Jesus Christ, the gospel of justice, the 
gospel of kindness and fidelity, to the earth, until cor- 
porations are no longer spoken of as soulless, because 
the church has put the consciousness of. soul into them; 
and when our collective activities have consciousnesses — 
our nations souls, and the collective activities of men, no 
less than individuals, consciousnesses, then will the eter- 
nal life of the Father be manifested, for it is of Christ 
Jesus, our Lord. 



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2 Five thousand Sabbaths has God's holy word, 
And Gospel Message been by thousands heard; 
To thousands more has Christian service given 
Help, comfort, healing, with sweet hope of heaven, 

3 Shall we enjoy what others richly gave 
In self-denial, loving, true and brave. 
And to ourselves our heritage confine 

When for its blessings thousands near us pine ? 

4 Freely have we received, as freely then 
Must we our heritage dispense again ; 
Duty and privilege in our service blend. 
That our rich blessings may to all extend. 

5 Oh, Thou ! in whose calm sight a thousand years 
But as one short day of our life appears ; 

Bless all the service of the century past. 
And help us serve Thee faithful to the last. 



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aoDenDa 

a Delitjetance on 
pergonal ©anctification 

MINUTES OF SESSION— Tuesday, January 6th, 1835. 

Tuesday evening 6" January 1835. The Session met at the 
Call of the Moderator. 

Present, Rev, Cyrus Mason, modr 
Elders: Hugh Auchincloss Cyrenius Beers 

Thomas Masters Horace Hinsdale 

Francis Markoe John W. Carrington 

Deacon, William Walker 

Absent Elisha Coit, Joseph Otis. 

Opened with prayer. 

The minutes of the last meeting of Session were read and 
approved. 

The Session record the death of Heman Averill which took 
place on the 31st December last. 

It was on motion Resolved that the paper reported to the last 
meeting be reconsidered. Whereupon the Session proceeded to 
the reconsideration of the same, and having made several amend- 
ments therein, it was unanimously adopted and being ordered to 
be recorded is as follows, viz. 

1st. That this Session do most cordially unite in deploring the 
existence of errors in doctrine and practice, in the presbyterian 
Church, as set forth in the paper called the act and Testimony. 
2nd. That this Session do most strenuously object to the prac- 
tice of admissions in our denomination of any who are not 
united with us in adopting the Confession of Faith and Cate- 
chisms of our church, as their standard of faith and practice 
without reservations or substractions from any part or parts 
thereof; and while they do not hesitate to allow every man 
the exercise of his own free and uncontrolled opinions in mat- 
ters of religion, they pronounce it a breach of common honesty, 
for any to enter the church or to remain in it, who hold opinions 
in it contrary to the standards thereof in their plain and intel- 
ligible meaning and according to their obvious and accepted 
sense. 

3rd. That while the Session do protest most solemnly against 
the errors in doctrine and practice above stated — they believe 
that these errors have crept into the church from a common 



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cause wherein all must more or less bear the charge of guilt, 
which cause is £he forgetfulness of God the Saviour as King in 
Zion, and as Head over his own body the Church, which he 
hath purchased with his own blood, and by whom all things 
consist; whereby the Holy Spirit has been grieved, and his 
influences in a great measure withdrawn from us. It is then no 
surprising thing, that many inventions have been sought out, 
and that men left to themselves, have trusted in their own 
wisdom, which is folly, and their own strength which is weak- 
ness. A general laxity of discipline has prevailed in the churches 
for a long time past — her institutions have been undervalued — 
the judicatories have not been attended seriously, punctually and 
prayerfully under a deep and solemn impression of obligation to 
duty and dependence upon the Holy Spirit for guidance and 
direction, and an awful sense of accountability to act in the fear 
of God, according to his holy will and for the salvation of souls. 

As a further consequence oiir standards and book of discipline 
have been lightly esteemed and it is to be feared many have 
been admitted through haste and inadvertence to the holy office 
of the ministry, imperfectly educated in theology, and the knowl- 
edge of the Holy Scriptures and without those decided evidences 
of evangeHcal experimental piety, so indispensable to the building 
up a spiritual church and the conversion of the souls of men — 
and thereby may it not be, that "grievous wolves have entered 
"in among us not sparing the flock of Christ, and of our own- 
"selves have men arisen, speaking perverse things, to draw away 
"disciples after them." 

This Session mourn over a departure from the simple doc- 
trines of "Christ Jesus and him crucified" in the preaching of 
the present day and the substitution of vain, visionary and con- 
fused theories or mere ethics — ^having a direct tendency to delude 
the souls of men, and bind them up in worldliness until their 
feet stumble upon the dark mountains of death. 
4th. That these evils prevailing in our church, being consequent 
upon a departure from God, a speedy return to the selfdenying 
and exemplary duties of a blameless and holy life is the only 
efficient remedy. Instead then of measures which in their 
tendency will inevitably lead to "debates, envyings, strife, wraths, 
backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults," let us seek for indi- 
vidual personal sanctification, which in its combinations will 
produce a sanctified and holy church, let us "follow after the 
"things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may 
"edify another" let us "follow peace with all men and holiness, 
"without which no man shall see the Lord." Let us do our 



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duty in our station and in the judicatories of the church, as God 
may enlighten us when called there — and by an humble devoted 
waiting upon God, be instrumental in drawing down upon the 
church, the blessings of his grace. Jesus is the Lord and Shcp-' 
herd of his people the government is upon his shoulder — he is 
alone and emphatically, the truth — and his Holy Spirit must and 
will guide his people into all truth "My sheep hear my voice, 
"and I know them, and they follow me, and I give unto them 
"eternal life and they shall never perish, and none shall pluck 
"them out of my hand." 

5th. That this Session do warmly approve the sentiments ex- 
pressed in the pastoral letter recently issued to their churches, 
from the presbytery of New York, and do bless God for those 
evidences of enlightened piety and christian love and watchful- 
ness which have dictated the same. It comes like a refreshing 
shower on a dry and thirsty land. The Session receive its ex- 
hortations with thankfulness and with prayer, that its admoni- 
tions may be sanctified to their souls, and to those of the flock 
under their charge. 

The Session in due consideration of the several matters now 
suggested adopt the following resolutions 

1st. Resolved that the members of this Session do bear solemn 
and unequivocal testimony against the errors in doctrine set forth 
in the paper called the act and Testimony, and declare the same 
to be dangerous, heretical, delusive to the souls of men, contrary 
to the Gospel of Christ, and subversive of the standards of the 
church, our only "Bond of denominational Union." 
2nd. Resolved, that in admissions to the priviledges of this 
church, whether by confession of faith or by certificates from 
other churches — the applicants shall be required to acknowledge 
and receive without reservations, the Westminster confession of 
Faith and Catechisms of the Presbyterian Church in the United 
States, and* that they shall enter into covenant before the church, 
recognizing the standards of the presbyterian Church as their 
rule of faith and practice and christian obedience. 
3rd. Resolved That this Session in consistency with their ordina- 
tion vows will more than ever study the peace and unity and 
purity of the church and "so let their light shine before men, 
that others may see their good works and glorify their father 
who is in heaven." 

4th. Resolved, That this Session will individually and unitedly 
humble themselves before God, in view of the evils which are 
spread over the church in general, as well as for those existing, 
in their own in particular and confessing their Sins before the 



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Lord, will seek through a Saviour's blood, forgiveness thereof, 
in order to that gracious return of spiritual influences, so freely 
promised in the words "Come and let us return unto the Lord 
for he hath torn and he will heal us, he hath smitten and he 
will bind us up; after two days he will revive us, in the third 
day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight." 
5th. Resolved, That a copy of this minute signed by the Mod- 
erator and Stated Clerk be laid before the Presbytery of New 
York at its next meeting and that a copy be likewise transmitted 
to the Editor of the presbyterian in Philadelphia, as an expression 
of the views of this Session upon the paper called the Act and. 
Testimony. 
Concluded with prayer. 



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^em6er0 of tfte 

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(ot 2Dne J^unOteD gear0 



I?«C. 7J, 1*08. 
CHARTBR MSMBSB8. 

Hugh Auchincloss 

William Cleveland 
Samuel Darling 
Thos. Darling 
Elisha Ely 
George Fitch 
William Hall 
Jonathan W. Kellogg 
Zechariah Lewis 
Eliakim Raymond 
Daniel Smith 
Solomon Williams 
Oliver Wolcott 
Mary Carrington 
Betsey Coit 
Nancy Darling 
Eliza Lewis 
Ann Manwairing 
Hannah Mudge 
Hannah Neilson 
Nancy Otis 
Lydia Richards 
Harriet Romeyn 
Anna Todd 
Mary V/atson 
Betsey Jackson 

Dec. 21, 1808. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Archibald Gracie 
Ester Gracie (Mrs. A.) 
Pelatiah Perrit 
Jane Reid 

Jan. 12, 1809. 

ADMITTED ON PROEESSION 

Elisha Coit 
Peter Morrison 
Robert Weir 

ADMITTED BY CERTIEICAT8 

Mrs. Lena Post 
David Ely 
Susannah Darling 

Mar. 16, 1809. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Harriet Mumford 

(Mrs. Benj. M.) 



Sarah Brown 
Isaac Ives 
George Gosman 
John Sayre 
Henry King 

ADMITTED BY CERTIEICATB 

William Gibson 
Sarah Gibson (Mrs. W.) 
Peter Hatterick 
Freelove Brittain 
Oliver Wilcox 
Hannah Porter 
Charlotte Porter 

May II, 1809. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Joseph Otis 
Wm. S. Chapman 
Hezekiah H. Williams 
Charles Richards 
Amory Gammage 
Elisha Compstock 
Lydia Coit 
Mary Fowler 
Margaret Strong 
Philetta Havens 
Rachel Brown 
Margaret Ann Todd 
Amelia Ives 
Mary Jackson 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Chas. A. Brewster 
Eleazar Lord 
Sally Smith 
Mary McNeil 
Ann King 
Elizabeth Sayre 
Joseph Ogden 
Mehitabel Ogden 

(Mrs. Joseph) 
Horace Hinsdale 
Sarah Hinsdale 

(Mrs. Horace) 

July IS, 1809. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Sophia Lewis 

(Mrs. Zech.) 



Elizabeth Post 

(Mrs. Joel) 
Sarah Williams 
Martha Lloyd 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Samuel Whiting 
Hannah Whiting 

(Mrs. S.) 
Clarissa Townsend 

(Mrs. Eben) 
Mrs. Scribner 
Frederick S. Thomas 

Nov. 13, 1809. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Julia Wattles (Mrs. Geo.) 
Charlotte Strong 
Sarah Fanning 
John E. Caldwell 
Jesse Scofield 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Jerusha Perrit 

(Mrs. Pelatiah) 
Ann Brewster 

(Mrs. Chas. A.) 
Martha Murray 

(Mrs. John B.) 

Nov. 17, 1809. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

William Blair 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Hannah Calldwell 

(Mrs. John E.) 
Samuel Penny 
Jemima Penny (Mrs. S.) 

Jan. 8, 1810. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Abigail Johnson Riggs 

(Mrs. C. S.) 
Sally Hall (Mrs. Wm.) 
Wm. R. De Witt 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Julia Tober 

(Mrs. H.igh K.) 
Mrs. Catharine Murphy 
Horace Bull 
Mary Bull (Mrs. Horace) 



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Eunice Bull July lo, 1810. March 11, 1811. 

Isaac Baldwin admitted on profession admitted on professiok 

William Callender Margaret Beers 
Thomas Masters (Mrs. C. P.) 

Mrs. Sarah Sclby Rufus ly. Nevins 

Mrs. Mary Vermilyea Nancy A. King 

Mrs. Eliza Irving Elizabeth Rogers 

(Mrs. Ebenezer) Lydia Huntington 



Jan. ig, 1810. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Isabella Mix 
Ezra Pratt 



ADMITTED BY CERTIEICATE 

Rebecca Maver t j- -r^ • c i. e* 

f-Kif J \ Ivydia Farnngton Sarah Strong 

(Mrs. J as.) jj^^^y ^ Schielifelin Mary Lang 

March 12. 1810. admitted by certificate admitted by certificat* 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Isabella Masters jno Bulckley 

^^""^ ^' ^^"'S V ^ ^^"- '^^°*-> Mrs. Huldah Foot 

(Mrs. Robert) Martha Freeman Mrs. Clara Porter 

Eliza Smith 

Mary Stewart Barr j^j^ ,,^ ,Sjo. May 6, i8n. 

L^ebbens l^oomis admitted by certificate admitted on profession 

Ehza I^oomis Dj^ie Bethune William Cook Mulligan 

(Mrs. Lebbens) Joanna Bethune Noah Wetmore 

Jonathan I^ittle (Mrs. Divie) Daniel Corwin 

David S. Lyon Mrs. Isabella Graham John Leach 

^ev^ Coit Dorcas Marsh James Hamilton 

Silas Hayes Harriet Whitney 
Joseph Hanniore ^^^^ ,^^ ,^10. (Mrs. Stephen) 

Gilbert Smith admitted on profession Betsey Jelf Bliss 

admitted by certificatb Archibald Henderson (Mrs B E) 

Mrs. Rachel McCready Wm. W. Vermilye Winnifred Wetmore 
Joseph Marcell Hannah Deming (Mrs. Noah) 

Heman Averill (Mrs. Barzillai) Mary Corwin 

March 14, 1810. ^rs, Joanna Heard (Mrs. Daniel) 

admitted by certificate ^}^^^ Parker admitted by certificate 

Jonathan Mix Nancy Halsey Maria Varick 

Elizabeth Mary Mix Sophia Wyckoflf ^^^^^^ Richard) 

(Mrs. J.) Rebecca Birch 

Barzillai Deming -^r^ . „ ,£,,, 

May 7, 1810. Brown King ^^^ ^' '^''^ 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION John Church ADMITTED ON PROFESSXOK 

Christian Zabriska ^ Ebenezer Stevens 

Cyrenius P Beers admitted by CERTIFICATE Peter Simonson 

Alexander Phoenix ^^^j- Burroughs Beza E. Bliss 

Margery Parker ^^^^"'Z ^""'"".S,^' ^^^^^ ^mith 

Eliza Durham ^, .i "■J?'i t"^"'' ^"j.'^ 

Helen Cunningham ?J"- ^^'^ ^' 5^"*^^°^ ^^'^^''' ^°^^^* 

^,. T u Mrs. Lois Peck 

£,iiza J^amb admitted by certificatS 

Rhoda Smith (Mrs, Matt.) , . „ Mrs. Maria Baldwin 

Nancy Jones ' 

•R^+o„ C ^^ 1^ admitted on PROFESSION . , 

Betsy Scofield ^^^^ Wadsworth "^"^^ '^' '^"' 

Ai- r^7' WMw Alfred Huntington admitted on profession 

Alice Colden Willet ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ Joel Post 

Margaret Bogardus ,^^^^ ^ John Gray 

admitted by certificate ' ' Margaret Gray 

Mrs. Patty Smith admitted by certificate (Mrs. Jno.) 

Samuel Stephens James Morgan Catharine Schuyler 

Harriett B, Williams Pamelia Redfield Elizabeth Nelson 

(Mrs. Solomon) (Mrs. Jno.) (Mrs. Joseph) 



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Nov. 18, iSii. 



Jane Zabriskie (Mrs. C.) 



ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Fanny Chapman 



Benjamin Strong 
Alexander Neilson 
Frederick W, Wray 
Andrew Sallig 
Paschal N. Strong 
John Carpenter 



Elizabeth Uvers 
Sarah Gardinier 

(Mrs. Bavent) 
Ursula Moore 



Jan. 14, 1813. 

ADMITTED ON PRO?ESSIOK 

Josias H. Coggeshall 
Mary Whitney 
Mary Hattrick 

(Mrs. Peter) 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED BY CERTIEICAT* 

Mrs. Olivia Munroe Richard Varick 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Mrs. FHzabeth Phelps Joseph Neilson 

Mrs. Mary Watson Richard Freeman Eunice Goodrich 

Mrs. Elizabeth Bartlett Mary Freeman (Mrs. R.) Sarah M. Goodrich 

Rebecca Haynes Mrs. Beulah Whittlesey ,, 

/TVT c M\ March 18, 18 13. 

(Mrs. Sam 1) ^ 

,, T, Tj ,1 /-vr -jir \ ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mary T. Hall (Mrs. Wm.) j,,i^ ,^^ ,^,^. ^^^^^^^ ^^^ 

Jan. 13, 1812. ADMITTED ON PROFESSION E;zra C. Woodhull 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION JO^n E. Hyde Wm. A. Prince 

Rosv/ell E. Colt ^^^^"a Hyde Lemuel Brewster 

George Duffield (Jr.) ^-^^^s. Jno. E.) Selah Covel 

John Taylor Rebecca Coit 

Mary Taylor (Mrs. Jno.) (Mrs. Elisha) 

Hannah Selleg 

(Mrs. Andrew) 
Martha Ee Roy 

(Mrs. Jacob) 
Rhoda Tunis (Mrs.) 
Hannah Gamage 

(Mrs. Amory) 
Eliza Murray 
Oliver Murray 



Robert Robinson 
Mary Robinson 

(Mrs. Robt.) 
Rachel EeavenM'orth 

(Mrs. Elisha) 
Eunice Stebbins 

(Mrs. Simon) 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mary Hinman 



Frederick King 
Joshua E. R. Birch 
Henry Hill 
Caleb O. Halsted 
Eliza Havens 
Frances Pratt 
Mary Weston 
Patty Codwise 
March 12, 1812. Ann June 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Polly RoSC 

Ashael Hathaway Gertrude Green 

Charles Mclntire Esther Miller 

John W. Carrington Abigail Fisher 

Rachel Birch 

(Mrs. J. E. R.) 



Jessy G. Bethune 
Mary Ann Coit 
Isabella G. Bethune 
Hannah McClure 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 



Rhoda Gorham 

(Mrs. Stephen) 
Maria McClelland 
Gitty Sparling 
Sarah Cable 
Philip Eudlow 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Gerald Eathrop 
Mary Eathrop 

(Mrs. Gerald) 



William Keese 
Betsey Scribner 
Thomas Godard 
Daniel B. Hempstead 
Grace Hempstead 

(Mrs. D. B.) 
Nancy Deforest 

(Mrs. Philo) 
Hannah Chandler 



Nov. 12. 1812. 



James Kelso 
Catharine Day 

(Mrs. Tunis) 
Ezekiel W. Morse 

July 15, 1813. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

William S. Root 
Marcus Wilber 
Rufus Davenport 
Hetty Ogden 



Leveritt T. I. Huntington admitted on profession Rhoda Ward 



Mrs. Sarah Malcolm 
Margaret Malcolm 



Amasa Jackson 
Jotham Post (Jr.) 
May 14, 1812. Susan Johnson 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Catharine B. Malcolm 
William Johnson ^^ria Clisby 

Julius E. Dunning admitted by CERTIFICATE ^^^^ ^m. Johnson 

Martha Dunning Sarah Baker admitted by certificate 

(Mrs. J. L.) Mille Philips James Olmstead 



Winifred Post 
Mrs. Sarah Young 
Eliza Young 
Martha M. Coit 
Thankful W. Gibbs 



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Cornelia Sands 

(Mrs. Comfort) 
Joanna Lott 
Jennette Godard 

(Mrs. Thos. H.) 
Mrs. Anna McThinne 

Nov. 24, 18 IS. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Harriet Bishop 

(Mrs. Warren) 
Daniel Wurtz 

ADMITTED BY CERTIEICATS 
Elizabeth Tracey 

(Mrs. Barton) 

Jan. 13, 1814. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Margaret W. (Rodman 

(Mrs. John K.) 
Wm. T. Manning 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Reuben Smith 

March 16, 1814. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Maria Metcalfe 

May 12, 1814. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Lucretia Felter 

(Mrs, Jno.) 
Knowles Taylor 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Eliphalet Stratton 

July II, 1814. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Augustus Spencer 
Hannah Spencer 

(Mrs. Augustus) 
Clarissa Evarts 
Neven Eee 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Jane B. Delaplaine 
Nov. 17, 18 14. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

James O. Gaither 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Jane Nevins 

(Mrs. Rufus E.) 
Robert Steel 

Jan. II, 1815. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Charles Watts 



Julia Ufford 

(Mrs. Hezekiah) 
Elizabeth H. Baldwin 

(Mrs. Isaac) 
Helen S. Ogden 
Phebe Wurtz 

(Mrs. Daniel) 
Sally Wilcox 

(Mrs. Oliver) 
Mrs. Hoe 
Harriet B. Wilson 

(Mrs. Jas. R.) 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Peter Stuyvesant, Jr. 
Eliphalet Gillett 
Helena Gillett (Mrs. E.) 
Agnes Watson 

(Mrs. Joseph) 
Alexander Duncan 
Mary Duncan 

(Mrs. Alex.) 

March 16, 1815. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Isabella Steele 

(Mrs. Robt. M.) 
Ann Maine (Mrs. Geo.) 
Mary C. Todd 
Mrs. Mary Frazier 
Eliza Little 
Elizabeth Graham 

(Mrs. Robt.) 
Frances Jessup 

(Mrs. Tarbel) 
Ashbel Bulckley 
Curtis Clark 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Julia Gamage 

(Mrs. Sam'l) 

Rebecca Clark 

(Mrs. Curtis) 

Archibald Bulckley 

May II, 1815. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Lewis Ward 

Horace Seymour Manley 

Elizabeth Ward 

Sarah Austin 

(Mrs. Daniel) 
Lucina Graham 
Rebecca Washburne 
Mrs. Oliver Trowbridge 
Mrs. Margaret Kidney 
Tarbel Jessup 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Geo. F. Vanpell 
Sarah Vanpell 

(Mrs. Geo.) 
Mrs. Elizabeth Helm 
Mrs. Sarah Layton 
Abigail Taylor 

(Mrs. Geo.) 
Jared Mead 

July IS, 1815. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Robert Graham 
Charles RoUinson 
Wakeman Burritt 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Thomas Masters 
Isabella Masters 

(Mrs. Thos.) 
Mary Wallace 
Susan Stuyvesant 

(Mrs. Peter) 
Mrs. Fanny Chapman 

Nov. 16, 18 15. 

ADMITTED ON PROl-ESSION 

Samuel M. Blatchford 
Abby Johnson 

(Mrs. Jno. C.) 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Charlotte Wilbur 

(Mrs. Rodney) 

Jan. 18, 1816. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Joseph Graham 
Ann Ogden 

(Mrs. David S.) 
Grace Burritt 

(Mrs. Wakeman) 
Charles Coggcshall 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

James Bliss 

Mrs. Anna Beach 

Mrs. Abigail Lanman 

March is, 1816. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Peter H. Shaw 

Jerusha Deanes 

Maria RoUinson 

Lucy Evarts 

Sarah Owens 

Margaret Baldwin 

Asa Taylor 

Abby Taylor (Mrs. Asa) 



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ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE James B. Taylor admitted by CERTIFICATE 

Charles Hyde Eliza Ann Graham Susan Fardon 

Wealthy Ann Bulckley Joanna Jacobs Mary Hall (Mrs. Jos.) 

(Mrs. Archibald) Maria Talbot 
James Morgan (Mrs. Geo. W.) ^'"'- ^' ^^'^■ 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

June 5, 1816. ADMITTED by certificate V/illiam Bostwick 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Aurelia Carrington 
Israel Foot (Mrs. Jno. W.) Jan. 15, J8i8. 

„, Tvr o. ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Thomas M. Strong ^^^. ,^^ jSi6. Archibald Bogue 

Thomas i,. Vermilye admitted on profession 

Roderick Sedgwick John Ogden Dey .f '^f" ^^J^^'ll^]?'"''^ 

Margaret Sedgwick j^aac Newton Cande ^^^'^ f "/ Woodhu^l 

(Mrs. R.) (Mrs. Ezra C.) 

Silas T. Baldwin •^""- ^'^' ^^^7- Mrs. Margaret Leffingwell 

William E. Noyes admitted on profession Avatus Kent 

Elizabeth IMetcalf ^ajah Taylor James Baber 

Nancy Fanning Susan Taylor Mrs. Sophia Gibb9 

Elizabeth Lawrence ^^^- ^ajah) ^ ^^^^ 

rMrc TnnatVinnI Susan Codman 

Uvirs. jonatnan; admitted on profession 

Daniel L. Bishop (M"' Wm.) ^.jj.^^^ ^^.^^^ 

Joseph Watson admitted by certificate Henry Havens 

Hannah Watson Joseph Sanford Abby Ann Strong 

(Mrs. Joseph) Lucy Bishop Margaret S. Ten Broeck 

Thomas L. Ely (Mrs. Daniel) |^j.s. Hester Sickles 

Jane Cheetham March 13 1817. Harriet Hotchkiss 

Maria Stebbins ' „ ' Mrs Nanrv White 

admitted on profession '^^^^- -^^ancy wnue 
Esther McCormick Elizabeth Hubbell Hannah Lee 

(Mrs. Hugh) (j^^g^ ^^ PhJUis Deniston 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Elizabeth Dubois Mary Elsworth 

Williarn Little admitted by CERTIFICATE admitted by CERTIFICATE 

Maria Leavitt ^^^^^ Ledyard Walter Monteith 

(Mrs. David) ^^^^^ Ledyard Elizabeth Armstrong 

Nancy Sistare (Mrs. Jos.) (Mrs Wm ) 

William L. Cande ^«3' 8. 1817. 

Charles Starr admitted on profession j^^^ ,,_ ^g^g 

Nancy Starr George Munro admitted on profession 

(Mrs. Chas.) A"" Jenkmson Catharine Maria Tousey 

Ann B. Griswold J^"^ Jenkinson j^^^ Baylor 

(Mrs. N. L.) M^^y ^"^^ ^^^"^ Elizabeth Braiden 

• Jane Braiden 

July 18, 1816. Margaret Kelso admitted by certificate- 

admitted on profession Diademia Wheeler Wouisa Ely 
Abraham Kidney ^ , „ (Mrs. Elisha) 

Wm. P. Stewart ^"^^ '^' '^'^' r , . .. 

„ ^, ,,, , admitted on profession July 16, 1818. 

Ruth Walton iir-n- -oi ^^ -d a: ,.,. 

K P - William Piatt Buftett admitted on profession 

^ , . ^' ^ Solomon M. Smith Elizabeth Doughty 

Sophia Brewster ,, ^. ^, 

^ Mary Cheetham 

admitted by certificate Elizabeth Cheetham ^°'^' -f^. ^^^S. 

Frederick King admitted by certificate 

-»T Auv T J admitted BY CERTIFICATB T^ 1 tuT- ^ u 

Mrs. Abby Leeds „, ,,. -„, ^ vr j Daniel Waterbury 

»4- AT-- M o 1. . 1, Thomas W. Blatchford 
Mrs. Abigail Saltonstall 

Oct. 21, 1817. Dec. 10, 1818. 

Sept. 12, 1816. ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Frederick Evarts Mabel Marquand 

Wm. A. Cook Sarah Sands (Mrs. Isaac) 



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Rebecca Norwood Nov. ii, 1819. Oct. 5, 1820. 

(Mrs. Andrew) admitted on profession admitted on profession 

Ruth Tucker Giles N. Whitney William Douglass Cairns 

(Mrs. Isaac) George A. Perkins Susan Brewster 

Betsey Peterson Deborah Allen (Mrs. Joseph) 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE J^"^ Walmsley 

Wilhelmina Johnston Catharine Wilbur Hannah Thompson 

Keziah Murden (Mrs. Marcus) admitted by certificaTB 

Mary O. F. Davison Mrs. Sarah Lenington Eliza S. Gardiner 
Peggy Thompson (Mrs. N.) 

Lenah Rankin Dec. 9, 1819. Nicholas Aldridge 

Theophilus Parvin admitted on profession Cynthia Aldridge 
Andrew S. Norwood (Mrs. N.) 

Feb. II, 1819. Helen Kissam j^^^ ^^ ^g^^ 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Wm. H. Whitney Feb. 10, 1820. Joanna M. Vermilyee 

Helen W. Hutchins admitted on profession Margaret L. Vermilvee 

Ann M. Huck Gilbert Tenant Snowden i;iizabeth Earl 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE E:iizabeth Malcolm ^^^,^^^^ ^^ certificate 

Thomas Turnbull admitted by certificate Maria Smith 

Jacob Poinier Mehitable Smith (Mrs. Sol M ) 

Jane Poinier (Mrs. J.) ., ., ^ „ Mrs. Anne Halsted ' 

Henry M. Brittin ^^''^^ 6, 1820. ^^ g ^ 

Benj. C. Smith admitted on profession j^j^^ Blatchford 

William H. Williams ^hza A^ Bailey Frederick Blatchford 

(Mrs. Floyd S.) 
April 8, 1819. Sophia Rhodes Feb. 17, 1821. 

admitted on profession Eliza Hubley admitted on profession 

Stephen B. Hutchings admitted by certificate ^^ward Calkin 
George M. Wilson Thadeus Sherman Martha Vandewater 

IvOuisa Rowland (Mrs. A.) 

(Mrs. Gardiner) June 8, 1820. Margaret Calhoun 

Olivia Brown (Mrs. R.) admitted on profession Diana Dubois 
Nancy Billard Cornelia Ann Whitney admitted by certificate 

(Mrs. Giles M.) Harvey Fisk 
June 10, 1819. 
admitted on profession June 9, 1820. April 4, 1821. 

John Taylor admitted on profession admitted on profession 

Julia Elmer Sally Francis Eliza Callender 

Mary Clark admitted by certificate admitted by certificate 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE David G. Hubbard Wm. F. Curry 

lyucy Jackson Sarah L,. Coit . 

(Mrs. Luther) ^"-^- ^' '^''■ 

Louisa Caldwell Aug. 10, 1820. „^^,f "Jf on profession 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ^^'^y otewart 

Aug. 5, 1819. John Aspinwall C^^i'S. Wm. P.) 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Susan Howland Aspinwall q^^ jj ^g^i. 

Theodore Keese (Mrs. J.) admitted" on' profession 

Rebecca Keese EHsha D. Hulbert Abigail Fountain 

(Mrs. Wm.) Nathaniel S. Penny (Mrs. Isaac) 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Mana Callendar Lothena Frost 

Mrs. Rhoda Keese ^inah Johnson Charles B. Brientnall 

Caleb O. Halstead admitted by certificate Adeline Curtis 

John Napier Elizabeth Hower Robert Birch 



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Dec. 6, 1821. ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Aug. 4, 1824. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Horatio N. Brinsmade admitted on proeessiok 
Wm. Allen James H. Woodhull 

Catharine M. Strong ^„^^„/^ 'J' Profession admitted by certificate 

Carolme Ameha Smith ^^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^ E;ii,a D. Woodhull 

Mary M Taylor .^^ ^.^^^^ (Mrs. Jas. H.) 

Betsey Curtis ^^^^^^^ ^^^^.^^ I^inus Mead 

admitted by certificate /,,, TU^o N 

Margaret Pitt ^,. ^^^"- .^^°^-> Dec. 8, 1824. 

niiza b. i^ewis ADMITTED ON profession 

Feb. 7, 1S22. Sophia M. Lewis j^ijag B. Watrous 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ^^MiTTED BY CERTIFICATE Sarah Taylor 
Joseph Brewster j^j.g_ Martha Watrous _ 

Maria Curtis j^jj^ ^nn Watrous ^''- ^' '^'^^ 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Stephen Peck March 26, 1823. J^"^ ^"" ^^^^^ 

Arin Peck (Mrs. S.) admitted on profession /^/^ ^^^ ^^^^^ 

Mrs. Sarah Woolley Wm. M. Ross admitted on' profession 

Jenny Bloodgood Margaret Dayton TerrillAifred Charles Post 

Jude Wyncoop Ross (Mrs. W. M.) 

Oct. 4. 1826. 
April 25, 1S22. April 9, 1823. admitted on profession 

admitted on profession ^oj^jitted on profession Jane Ellis 
Lydia Sherman Olcott j^Uza Robins ^ „ „ , 

Phoebe Curtis (Mrs. Ashbel W.) ^''- *' '^'^- 

^ -r ADMITTED ON profession 

June 20, 1822. Betsey Jones ^^^^^ ^^^^^ 
admitted on profession (Mrs. Kzekiel W.) 

Daniel Austin ^"^- ^- ^^^^^ 

Elisha Averill admitted on profession admitted by certificate 

T I- Tj- 1 J /-> -i. Elizabeth Hoe Francis Markoe 

Joseph Rowland Coit out c u K./r 1 

Zy ^ /-I. Sarah lyanman Sarah Markoe 

Hester Graham w ^ ,,^ -r- . ^ 

/T\T (^ -ixT N (Mrs. Francis) 

M r^'t?'\ ^''- ^' '^'^- M-^tb- C. Markoe 

Mary L.. Mattnck admitted on profession Sally Markoe 

Mary H Lanman ^^^^ gavage Mary M. Caldwell 

Margaret Marsh ,,. . 

TT • ^^ n,r rr T. 1 ^ « Miriam L,ewis 

Henrietta M. Ten E'rock Dec. 10, 182^. » ^ . 

TTi- -rv TDu 1 ^ J ^nn Eewis 

Eliza D. Phelps admitted on profession ,, . -di ^ i.r j 

_ ^. c^ Mary Ann Blatchford. 

admitted by certificate Eucretia Steven 

Polly Mead (Mrs.Merbin) (Mrs. Eben.) p^^^ ^ ^g^^_ 

Aug. 8, 1822. admitted by certificate admitted on profession 

admitted on profession Sarah Scribner John Wheelwright 

David M. Hubbard Gurdon S. Buck 

Wm. B. Phelps April 7, 1824. Ralph Olmsted 

Abby T. Eanman admitted by certificate Mary Olmsted 

Emdine Penny Catharine Nelson (Mrs. R.) 

Der c J822 ^^'■^- ^°^-^ Harriet Coit 

uec. 5, 1022. Ejdmund Hyatt 

admitted on profession - , . ^ .. T> -x^ admitted by certificate 

T»/r xs ' Maria Coit Perritt ,, ^t • -^r • 

Mary Hoe Mrs. Henrietta Martin 

Emeline Hoe j^^^ ^ ^^,^ William Walker 

Cynthia Smith admitted by certificate ^^^" Wheelwright 

Harriet Cable Mary McEvers (^^^-s- Jno.) 

Antoinette Cable George Munroe 

Martha C. Masters June 11, 1824. Richard C. Morse 

Sarah Masters admitted on profession Wm. G. Watrous 

Jane I,. Auchincloss Robert Buloid Samuel M. Blatchford 



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Betsey Blatchford Stephen Keeler admitted by certificatu 

(Mrs. S. M.) Amos Thornton Eliza A. Robbins 

Ann Hall I^lizabeth Thornton 

^ ., „ (Mrs. Amos) ^"^- 7> ^«^*- 

April 4, 1827. ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOK 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Q ^-f g jg^y^ Sarah L,ang 

William W. Chester admitted on profession Elizabeth Markoe 

Hannah M. Chester Mrs. Eliza Dart Wm. Henry Hoople 

(Mrs. W. W.) Cornelia Halstead q,,. ^^^^^ 

I'^'l. ^\ , (Mrs. Caleb O.) ^,3,,,,,^ ,^ profession 

Caroline Steele getsey Kellogg j^geph Alden 

Emma Beers (Mrs. Timothy) Maryette Morse 

Harriet Beers Elizabeth Hubbard Lucy Hubbard 

Cornelia Battelle Martha Hubbard Frances Jessup 

Rebecca Shaddock Mary Spencer 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE JuHna Mason 

Dennis Davenport Sophia Havens Ann Mason 

Catharine Davenport (Mrs. Hy.) Perses Eee 

(Mrs. Dennis) ja^es N. Cobb phiJo. p. Phelps 

Henry Young John R. McDowel 

"" h'. T^. Dec. 6, 1827. Ralph R. Finch 

(Mrs. Hy.) admitted on profession 

Joseph E. Marshall Theressa King Dec. 3, 1828. 

lyucretia Richards admitted by CERTIFICATE 

admitteT on' Profession admitted by certificate ^^T.^J^^^JI^P^ 
Nathaniel Gardiner ^^oda Walker Will am Wilby 

Henry B. Hinsdale Hannah Estie Sybil Wilby 

Henry Butler Wm. R. Swift John Simonson 

^ ,^ , Mary Simonson 

Henry C. Mudge ^ 

Hellen Kent (Mrs. Wm.) •'' * Dec. 10, 1828. 

,^,. , , „ ,, admitted on profession 

Elizabeth Battelle Emilv Richards admitted on profession 

Martha Hinsdale ^^^ ^ jjalsted ^^^^^^^ ^^; ^°^ 

I aura Clark ^ Ehza Man ey 

Ann Maria Hyde Mary b. John 

Eouisa Buloid admitted by CERTIFICATE admitted by certificate 

Maria Halstead Lorenza Stevens Hannah Whitney 

(Mrs. Wm. M.) Norman White 

Sarah Eldridge I°" ^^^^^itt Jan. 30, 1829. 

_,. , , TT • ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Elizabeth Haines -cv j • 1 o^ 1 

Martha White April 10, 1828. Frederick Stanley 

Mary R. Crosby admitted on profession Jonn eowzens 

Amelia A. Taylor ^ary Ann Gray ^^'^"^^^T 

Martha Tackson ^-1'^^ M. Steel Mary Eldredge 

Martha Jackson Sally Edwards 

admitted by certificate admitted by certificate 

Jonathan E. Hyde Mary Leavitt admitted by CERTIFICATE 

laura E. Hyde Newton Hayes Jno- Bnggs 

(M T L 'J Massalen Bnggs 

Ezekiel w'* Morse ^«- 5, ^828. Andrew Thompson 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ^^^^^ Thompson 
July 25, 1827. Woodbridge S. Olmsted Mary A. White 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Ncwton St. John J"^ia A. Montague 

Abby Harington Edward Field Eliza Doremus 

Orvin Thompson Grace E. Burritt April 3, 1829. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Jane Miller admitted on profession 

Mrs. Hardy Isabella Field Edwin I. Brown 



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James M. Halstead Jan. 7, 1830. Martha Beatty 

John H. Morrison admitted on profession admitted by CERTIFICATE 

Chas. A. Brewster Wm. Hall. Jr. Mary McCormick 

Robt. R. Kellogg Frances M. Mason 

Nancy Johnson ^'^- '^' '^^'' 

admitted by CERTIFICATB 
ADMITTED BY certieicatb Jane B Sterrett 
Charles Mudge Ambrose S. Ludlow (^rs Benj ) 

Caroline H. Dey Stillman S. Clapp Margaret Wilsey 



Elbert J. Rosevelt 
Homer Ramsdale 



Mary Dimond 
Achsah Smith 



Feb. 5, 1830. (^^"- J-> 

AntTZ Taylor admitted by certificate ^°""S^ Andrews 

Sarah L. Ross Catharine Wales 

Derentine Sexton Catharine Staples 

Emily Steel ^ath. S. Goddard 



April I, 1831. 
admitted on profession 
Truman Roberts 



Wm. Henry Smith _ . , „ ,, 

admitted by certificate tv^„_^ p ctnrcr^c David Hoadley 

William Hall ^ Sturges ^^^^^^ ^ Farnham 

Mary J. Hall April 2, 1830. Simeon P. Hyde, Jr. 

admitted on profession Amasa Jackson 
July 7, 1829. Elizabeth Dimond Hartman Markoe 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Charlotte Ludlow Samuel C. Masters 

John Ely Abigail D. Sturges Henry Wyckoff Olcott 

William Taylor Merlin Mead Joseph Parker Spencer 

Richard Catlin Lorenzo Lee James R. Westcott 

Clarissa Catlin Charles St. John Ebenezer Russel 

Eliz. H. Green Chas. A. Marvin Whittlesey 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Allen M. Jcromc Atamson Trask 

Solomon E. Moore John Hall Francis Burritt 

Elizabeth Helme admitted by certificate J°^^^^ Salisbury Breese 

Sarah Layton Charlotte O. Risley Thomas Archibald 

Cummins 
Oct. 8, 1829. July 5, 1830. William Edwards Mead 

admitted on profession admitted on PROFESSION james Jay O'Kill 
Henry S. St. John Angeline Ludlow Hannah Scribner 

Lewis Tappan Julia Hinsdale (Mrs. Elizah P.) 

Susan A. Tappan Frederick A. Burke Mary W. Butler 

Rachel Dimond George W. Ives (Mrs. Silas Jr.) 

admitted by certificate admitted by certificate Phoebe Cobb 
John Wright John Gallaher (Mrs. Jas. N.) 

Richard J. Thorne Sarah Gallaher Mary Hoadley 

Nancy S. St. John Mary Gallaher (Mrs. David) 

Catharine Duffy Esther McCormick Charlotte Smith 

Hetty A. McCormick (Mrs. Wm. H.) 

Dec. 10, 1829. Caroline Sophia Lowery 

admitted on profession ^ept. 17, 1830. (Mrs Jno ) 

Angeline Ketchum. ,T\7^° "^ certificate Hannah Almira Batis 

Frances Staples John Mason ^^^^^^ ^^^^.^^ 

Caroline Drake q^^^ ^^ ^g^^^ ja„e Baker 

admitted by certificate admitted on profession Martha Caldwell 
Rhoda Smith David Codwise Ann Eli^a Doremus 

Nancy Day Rufus Leavitt Ann Frances Darling 

Sarah M. Mease Amos S. Cook Anna Freeman 

Sarah W. Gurchy James S. Brown Sarah Hall 

Andrew Mills Edward Jones Ann Knight 

Lucy S. Mills Mary Decamp Caroline Powell 



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Centennial Celebration of tfte 



(Mrs. C. C.) 



Mary Seely Eliza Sumner 

Harriet Hannah Thorne Charles C. Darling 

Louisa Caroline Thorne Adeline Darling 

Cornelia Miller Thorne 

Jemima Terboss 

Ann Emmons 

Caroline Emmeline Hoe 

Mary Evans 

Laura Louisa Johnson 

Cornelia Johnson 

Mary Elizabeth Nevins 

Helen Augusta Nevins 

Elizabeth Huntington Otis, 

Mary Phelps Olmsted 



Charles C. Young 
John Wright 
Sarah Marquand 
Letty Marie Schofield 
Hannah Johnson 



July 20, 1831. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS 

Frederick Marquand ^^^ry S. Peck 

Josiah Penfield Marquand ^"^ Thorne 



Josephine S. Ross 
Sarah Burr White 
Julia Ann Olcott 
Maria Sheffield White 
Ann Eliza Goddard 
Jane Eliza Gamage 
Rachel Hoe 

Frances Elizabeth Sistare 
Sarah Lord Sistare 



Cornelius Paulding 

Marquand 
Samuel B. Haight 
Edward M. Price 
Thomas Darling, Jr. 
Hetty Marquand 

(Mrs. Fred.) 



Sept. 30, 18 31. 



Lavinia Thorne 
Mary Ann Patrick 

June 5, 1832. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

David Buck 
David N. Demarest 
Hannah Demarest 
Sarah Thompson 



ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Evelina Thompson 



Edward Buck 
Frances Mills 

(Mrs. Cephas 
Mary Spencer White 

(Mrs. Cephas) 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Mary Sheldon Graham 
Cynthia F. Davis Mary Post 

Jane Graham 
April 5, 1831. Caroline Kirkland 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Maria Scribner 
Benjamin B. Coit 



William Haines, Jr. 

Margaret C. Doremua 

Sarah Buck 

Ann Hoe 

Francis Maria Hayes 

June 9, 1831. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

John W. Leavitt 
George D. Phelps 
Theodore L- Mason 
William Callender, Jr. 
William C. Frink 
John Jeseaume Delatour 
Cecilia K. Leavitt 

(Mrs. Jno. W.) 
Alma Post (Mrs. Joel) 
Eliza Jane Travis 
Emily Brown 
Catharine Davenport 
Hannah Haines 
Eliza Jane Kelso 
Lucretia Marquand 
Matilda Scribner 



Julia Burr 
Charity Burr 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Jane L. Jackson 
Mary Tingle 
Phoebe Crozier 

Oct. 6, 1832. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mary Buckridge 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Martha Martin Lucas 
(Mrs. Paul) 

Dec. I, 1832. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
Mary Barr Auchincloss 
Pardon Davenport Davis 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Charles Crosby 
Gurdon Buck Cordelia C. Crosby 

Susanna Buck (Mrs. G.) p ■• ^ p 

Elbert Knight admitted on profession 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Ann Brewster 
Samuel N. Burrill 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Stephen P. Leeds 
John M. Seely 
Mrs. Fanny Burnet 
Elizabeth Mathilda 

Farnham 
Sarah Amanda Lucas 

Dec. 13, 1831. 



Betsey Maria Burrill 
(Mrs. S. M.) 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Esther Storrs 

(Mrs. Hy. R.) 



1832. 



Feb. 7, 

ADMITTED ON 

William Castle 
Maria Hayes 

(Mrs. Newton) 
March 31, 1832. 



April 2, 1833. 

PROFESSION ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Martha Wurts 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mary Smith Simonson 
(Mrs. John) 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Cephas Mills 
Palmer Sumner John Gill Nelson 



ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Rachel Morgan 

(Mrs. David) 
Sarah Boyd 



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June 4, 1833. Harriet Candee Jane Roberts 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION (Mrs. M. ly.) James P. Swain 

Martha Gibson Eliza Johnes Araminta Swain 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE (Mrs. Aaron P.) (Mrs. J. P.) 

Anna Halsted Emily Chapman Hubbard 
J^athaniel N. Halsted "^""^ ^^' ^^^^- (Mrs. J. B.) 

ADMITTED ON PROEESSION g^^ah Fowler 

August 6, 1833. w'n-'^^ff'^'" Uuisa Lynch 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE William Mulligan g^^^^^ ^^^.^ Vanpelt 

Esther O. Macomber Peyton RStorrs Elizabeth Wilson 

]:..S.Mead Matilda Kellogg 
Oct. 10, 1833. ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Elizabeth Kellogg 

.""TT/^.r °'' ^«°^^'^'°^ Robert W. Mead Emmelina McCormick 

John M. Morgan jjieanor Bolton ja^^es Bayles 

ADMITTED BY CERTlFlCATe ^ ^ ^^ Julia H. Bayles 

Francis G. Turner ' rMr<! TampQ"* 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Vivirs. james; 

Nov. 29, 1833. Malsey Maria Edwards ^^i^a H. Miller 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ^^^^y^^^^b^t^'T"^^^^ ' Oct. 5, 1836. 

William Wurts ^^^^^y Wanton Dennis admitted on profession 

Elizabeth Ewing Wurts Benajah F. Leonard Lucinda Barley 

(Mrs. W.) ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Caroline Wurts Hannah F. Leonard Mary Mercein 

Ellizabeth W. Neil Charles F. Park (Mrs. Thos. R.) 

Willis Lord April 6, 1836. James Case ' 

Jan. 31, 1834. ADMITTED ON PROFESSION J°^'^ ^- Crane 

ADMITTED on' PROFESSION Anabella M. Taylor jy^^ ^^ jg^^ 

Wm. D. Waterman Selina Hoe admitted by certificate 

Benajah Smith admitted by certificate Mrs. Eunice Stebbins 

Joseph Giraud Maria Stebbins 

Aprtl I, 1834- g2j.^ij Tvj^j.j^ Giraud Elizabeth Malcolm 

ADMITTED by certificate /-.^ t \ r^ 4.U • at 1 

P , , (Mrs. Jos.) Catharine Malcom 

William S. Williams James H. Sayre 

Oct. 2, 1834. r 00^ Hannah Sayre 

/Mn? 8, 1836. ,, , T XT S 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE (Mrs. J. H.) 

^ ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE c 1 tt ^ i.i • 

Susan Coursen t-i- t. ^1. o^ j Samuel Hotchkiss 

cx T- -ixr- 1 Elizabeth Steward -mr-n- c 

Stephen Wickes „ . iv/r tm- j William Seymour 

T> -J ijT-u-* Enoch M. Mead t a c 

David White _,. , ^, ,t j Jane Ann Seymour 

Elizabeth Mead ..^ \^^ ^ 

^ „ „ /TVT T- ATX (Mrs. Wm.) 

Oct. 8, 1834. (Mrs. E. M.) 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Robert p. Williams p^^ ^^ ^^ _ 

Nathaniel L. Griswold j^iy ^8, 1836. admitted 'on profession 

Ann Knowles admitted on profession John Newton Stickney 

Dec. 10, 1834. Charlotte Hamilton admitted by certificaTS 

admitted on' profession admitted by certificate Richard Cole 

Charles Buck Nathaniel T. Jennings Jane Cole (Mrs. R.) 

Hiram Barney Maria Jennings James Harper 

(Mrs. N. T.) Elizabeth Harper 

admitted BY certificate a T\/r t • /ivr t ^ 

, , T> ji -D -11 Anna M. Jennings (Mrs. Jas.) 

Mary Bradley Burrill r-u 1 .. r> t • Air j\f r^ 1. 

(M S N ■) Charlotte B. Jennings Alfred M. Coffin 

„, ■, -r, '.' ' Catharine I. Jennings Frederick Somers 

Edward Boynton ti.ttii t-j jt,i 

Joshua Hall Edward Buck 

April 9, 1835. Harriet C. Hall Henrietta Buck 

admitted by certificate (Mrs. Joshua) (Mrs. Dr. Gurdon) 

Morgan L. Candee Catharine Mulligan Elizabeth L Field 



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Centennial Celebration of tfie 



Maria Field 
Mary Clark 

April 6, 1837. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Dr. Horace Green 
Eli Mygatt, Jr. 
Nathaniel WoodhuU 

Howell, Jr. 
John V. Brewer 
Mary Broonifield Brower 

(Mrs. Jno.) 
Olivia Brown 

(Mrs. Silas) 
Emily M. Brown 
Allen H, Brown 
Eunice Ripley Nelson 

(Mrs. John G.) 
Abby Whitehorn 



Franklin Knight 
Annabella E. Howland 
Abby W. Howland 
Anna Bloomfield 

Dec. 5, 1837. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Sarah Lang 
Elizabeth Davis 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Nancy Shepherd 
Mary Avery 
Isabella Smith 
Edward B. Pease 
Elizabeth C. Cooper 
Mary S. Cooper 
Clara Pierson 
Caroline Wakeman 



June 14, 1837. Feb. 7, 1838. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Jane Jewett (Mrs. N. H.) Alfred Mulligan 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Martin W. Emmons 
Caroline Ann Emmons 

(Mrs. M. W.) 
Orren Thompson 
Eove Thompson 

(Mrs. Orren) 
Catharine P. Brown 
James J. Tracey 
Charlotte Niven 
Abraham Van Duyn 

Aug. 10, 1837. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Nathan H. Jewett 
Francis Robert Masters 

Oct. 4, 1837. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

David Johnson Halsted 
Ann Burnst 
Ivouisa M. Howland 

(Mrs. G.) 
Eliza Jane Niven 
Caroline E. Doremus 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Dr. Vernor Cuyler 
Caroline Culyer (Mrs- V.) 
Dr. Charles E. Pierson 
Ann M. Pierson 

(Mrs. E. E.) 
Nathaniel Wilson 
Sarah Ann Wilson 

(Mrs. N.) 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

J. Howard Williams 
Jesse Connor 
Jeremiah I. Grenough 
Benjamin L,. Swan 
Mary Childs Swan 
(Mrs. B. L.) 
Josephine Robinson Shall 
Nancy W. Nee 
Marshall Bronson Blake 

April 5, 1838. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Albert Beach 
Gilbert Mollison 
Peter Parkson 
Sarah Ann Hudson 

(Mrs. L.) 
Jennette C. Green 

(Mrs. J. W.) 
Adeline Divine 
Mary Ann Havens 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Jno. p. Eester 
Wm. R. Murphy 
Jeremiah Wilbur 
Sarah R. Wilbur 
(Mrs. J.) 
Mrs. Agnes K. Stuart 
Ellen Anderson 
Sarah H. Lambdin 
Frances Bosworth 
James Matthews 



June 7, 1838. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Caroline Eydia Griffen 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
George Griffen 
Eydia Grififen 

(Mrs. Geo.) 

Oct. 12, 1838. 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
John Selby 

Sarah Selby (Mrs. Jno.) 
Catharine Ann Hanna 

(Mrs. Jno.) 
Charles H. Kellogg 
Harriet Kellogg 

(Mrs. Chas, H.) 
Eorenzo Snow 
Geo. W. Snow 

Feb. 7, 1839. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Samuel D. Green 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Nancy Holmes 
Nancy King 

(Mrs. Hy. H.) 
Mary Henderson 

April II, 1839. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOH 

Ann D. Lee 

(Mrs. David) 
Nancy Wade Halsted 

(Mrs. N. M.) 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Bartholemew Brown 
Lucy P. Trowbridge 
Maria Brower Whitney 

June 5, 1839. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Myron Crafts 
L. W. Hall 
Jared W. Tracey 

Aug. 2, 1839. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

David L. Moore 
John S. Moore 
John W. McWilliams 
Ebenezer Beadleston 
]\Iary Beadleston 
(Mrs. E.) 



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229 



Oct. 10, 1839. lyucretia G. Hustace 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE (MrS. D.) 



Mrs. Mary Brower 

Mann 
Mrs. Jane Taylor 

Dec. II, 1839. 



Ann Maria Callender 
(Mrs. Wm.) 

Elizabeth Auchincloss 
(Mrs. Jno.) 

Rebecca Buck 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Sarah Griswold 



Daniel Church, Jr. 
George Douglass 
Mary Douglass 

(Mrs. Geo.) 
Elizabeth Douglass 
Jane M. Douglass 
James P. Wallace 
Emmeline V. W. Snow 

(Mrs. Geo. W.) 
Mary Davenport 
Sarah C Howell Mulligan -;-";- ' 

(Mrs. H. S.) 



Jane Phyfe 
Jeannette Phyfe 

Anna Auchincloss Masters^ 
Isabella Brown 
Mary Ann Brown 
Catharine Eliza 

Cowenhoven 



Giles F. Ward 
Lucy B. Ward 
Charles Smith 
Sophia Mygatt 

(Mrs. Eli) 
Elizabeth H. Miller 

April 8, 1841. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mary Bronson 
Margaret E. Beers 
Catharine H. Eambdin 
Ann Mclntyre 
Jane Thompson 



June 10, 1841. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE >°^^'^'^^° °^ PROFESSION 

John D. Vermeule Francis H. Ammmdon 

DrusiUa D. Beach ^"^ Ammindon 

(Mrs. F. H.) 
Gurdon Burchard 



Ji^h 24. 1S40. Samuel W. Selby 

Feb. 5, 1840. ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Samuel T. Bull 
Juliet E. Snow Benjamin H. Bodwell 

(Mrs. Eorenzo) Abraham Richards 
Sarah Richards 

(Mrs. A.) 
Anna Crawford 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

George McKenzie 
Jane McKenzie 

(Mrs. Geo.) 



April 7, 1840. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Charles N. Fearing 
Mary Fearing 

(Mrs. C. N.) 
Augustus W. Saxton 
James Wilde, Jr. 
I/inson D. F. Jennings 
Thos. F. R. Marcein 
Caroline A. Edwards 
Mary Hunting 
Caroline Matilda Burrill 
Sarah Ann Potts 
Eliza A. Ludlow 
Hannah Marshall 
Mary Elizabeth Brown 
Emily Robb 
Catharine H. Beers 
Frances M. Doremus 
Cecila K. Eeavitt 
Eliza S. Eeavitt 



Oct. 5, 1840. 



Aug. 5, 1841. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Dr. John G. Gumming 



ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Thomas Sdlby 



William Eibbey 
Emily Keese Bailey 
Mary Deming 
Elizabeth Ely Mulligan 
Elizabeth Hinsdale 



Harriet Reeves 
Ann Henry 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Dr. James Kennedy 
Julia Kennedy (Mrs. J.) 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE WilKam Scribner 
John Phyfe Mary Ann Burbridge Coit 

Jane Phyfe (Mrs. J.) (Mrs. Gurdon) 

Lydia M. Coffin 

Dec. 8, 1841. 

Dec. 10, 1840. ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Sarah Bailey (Mrs. Wm.) 
Frederick W. Wolcott 

,, Ti A J ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mary P. Andrew t T^r r, ■ 

, , ., , . , . , James McBrair 

Matilda Auchincloss tt o^ t 

Henry btarr, Jr. 

Richard Cole 



Catharine Mitchell 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE David t,. Moore 



Henry K. Bull 
Ann S. Eibbey 



Henry Andrew 
Catharine Andrew 

(Mrs. Henry) 
June II, 1840. Ann B. Andrew 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Catharine E. Andrew 
John Wurts Eleanor P. Andrew 

Alexander A. Meldrum A. T. Hicks 
William Hinsdale Frederick S. Agate 



Mrs. Eliza Thompson 
Julia Ann Eey 

Feb. II, 1842. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Ann Coit (Mrs. Henry) 
Frances R. Coit 
Elizabeth M. Coit 



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William Chauncey 
Julia Ann Chauncey 

(Mrs. Wm.) 
Ann Bolton (Mrs. Curtis) 
Mary Mulligan 
H. J. Raymond 
Evelyn Caspar 

April 7, 1842. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

John S. Jenkins 
Robert Ayres 
Azelia Giraud 
Jane Ranton 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Agnes Galley 
Ann E^liza Dolson 

(Mrs. Wm.) 
Elizabeth Ruton 
Mary Requa 
Maria Elizabeth Kerr 

Richards (Mrs. Jas.) 
Fanny Hewlett 

(Mrs. Thomas) 
William R. Waller 
Watson E. Case 
Alfred Cobb 
Juliet Wallace 

(Mrs. Jas. P.) 

June g, 1842. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Jane Floyd (Mrs. Jas.) 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Nancy Brown 

(Mrs. Allen) 
Harriet Green 

(Mrs. Horace) 
Dr. George Harrall 
Charlotte Harrall 

(Mrs. Geo.) 
Nathaniel B. Boyd 
Thomas F. Welch 

Aug. 12, 1842. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mandlebert Canfield 
Anna W. Canfield 
(Mrs. M.) 
Samuel A. Beckmr.n 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Hannah Ireland 

(Mrs. Geo.) 
Eliza Dick 
James E. Goddard 



Oct. 7, 1842. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Ralph Rawdon 
Susan Rawdon 

(Mrs. Ralph) 
Lucy Ann Kellogg 
Sarah Ann Phelps 
Catharine Payne 
Louisa Hality 
Hugh Smith Carpenter 
Thomas Rowell 



George Morgan 
Thomas H. Field 
George H. Brown 
Lewis W. Seaver 
Elias Brown 
Anastasius Nicols 
Jane Black 
Adeline Phyfe 
Caroline Noyes 
Mary Stewart 
Elizabeth Vorhees 



Dec. 7. 1842. ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS- 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ^^^^ Comervilk 

Lucinetta Halsted . 

Aug. II, 1843. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 



David Reynolds H. 

Sutherland 
Charles Heath 
Pamela Heath 

Feb. 7, 1S43. 



William A. Atwater 
John Griswold 
Isabella Nicholson 

Oct. 5, 1843- 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ^^^.^^ ^^^^ g^^,_^^^ 



Elizabeth Field 
Jane Roderick 



(Mrs. Elias) 
Henrietta C. Brown 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Joanna Bethune Dec. 7, 1843. 

(Mrs. Divie) admitted on profession 

Julia Ann Wetmore Robert Mclntyre 

Frances Staples ComstockAmos Johnson, D. D. 
Luke Dorland George H. Jennings 

Jane Haight admitted by certificate 

April 6, 1843. Henry B. Atkins 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION George M. McLean, M.D. 



Oliver B. Strong 
Margaret Strong 

(Mrs. O. B.) 
Benjamin A. Norrell 
Horatio Brown 
J. A. F. Douglass 
Caroline Louise Dayton 
Mary Ann Kerr 

admitted by certificate 
Maria Louisa Howland Nancy R. Selby 
Lydia Ann Lee (^^^s. Jno.) 

June 8, 1843. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 



John H. Sherman 
Thomas Hunt Shafer 
George Seely 
David Townsend 

Feb. 5, 1844. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Henry C. Sheldon 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 



Juliette Raymond 
(Mrs. H. J.) 



Thomas M. Smith 
Mary Ann Smith 

(Mrs. T. M.) 
Eliza Keeler (Mrs. J.) 
Elizabeth Haggerty 

(Mrs. Michael) 
Ann Mclntyre 

(Mrs. Robt.) 



April 10, 1844. 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

J. Orville Taylor 
William Murray 

June 5, 1844- 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Thomas G. Wall 



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231 



Aug. 8, 1844. Henrietta Farlass 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE (Mrs. Jas.) 



James M. Prescott 
Ann R. Prescott 

(Mrs. J. M.) 
Catharine E. Swain 

(Mrs. J. P.) 
Ellen M. Prescott 



Catharine Pierson 
James S. Polhemus 
Ann Eliza Polhemus 
(Mrs. J. S.) 

March 6, 1845. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Thomas Wood 



Nov. 6, 1844. 
ADMITTED ON PROFESSION J^"^^^ ^enry Pooley 



Margaret Cosgrove 

(Mrs. F.) 
John Drummond 
Lucy Ann Drummond 

(Mrs. Jno.) 



Henry A. Underwood 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mrs. Margaret Kay 
Henry G. DeForest 
William I. Stedman 
Mrs. Elizabeth Wikoflf 
Mrs. Clara Wakeman 
Mary Rea 
Lucy S. Mills 
Thomas C, Chalmers 
Margaret Chalmers 

(Mrs. Thos. C.) 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Henry Ward Law 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Jan. 8, 1846. 

Joseph W. Pierson admitted on profession 

Anna S. Galley 
May 7, 1845- (Mrs. Jas.) 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ^^^^^^^ j,_ jj^^^^ 



Samuel F. Greenleaf 
William H. Dayton 
Emily Dayton 

(Mrs. W. H.) 
Helen F. Field 

(Mrs. Edward) 
Edward W. Coleman 
Elizabeth C. Alexander 

(Mrs. James A.) 
Edward Wall 
Edwin R. McGregor 

Jan. g, 1845. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Daniel S. Briant 
Eliza R. Briant 
Charlotte W. Edgerton 

(Mrs. L.) 
Margaret Watson 

(Mrs. A.) 
Margaret J. Watson 
Marrianne Watson 
William H. H. Moore 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Samuel W. Selby 
Ann E. Selby 

(Mrs. S. W.) 
Ann Calender 

(Mrs. Thos.) 
Jane Renwick 
Isabella Smedberg 

(Mrs. Chas. S.) 
Jane Renwick Smedberg 
David Stevens 
Mary L Stevens 

(Mrs. David) 
Edgar W. Woods 
Thomas Hunt Shafer 



Mrs. Ellen Keith 
Mary Ann McGrah 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICAT8 

Adelim Smith 

(Mrs. Jas. Y.) 
William Bannard 
Mrs. Frances M. 

Denniston 
Mrs. Emily W. St. John 
Miss Amelia Ketchum 
William Forest, Jr. 
Robert W. Mead 
Mrs. R. W. Mead 
Clarissa Mead 
Samuel Jewett 
Mrs. S. Jewett 
Elizabeth Jewett 



James Forest 
Margaret Forrest 
Agnes A. Cooper 

(Mrs. J. W.) 
Thomas Walker 
Susan Walker 

(Mrs. Thos.) 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Robert I. Brown 
Ann C. Brown 

(Mrs. R. J.) 
Marian C. Brown 
Martha W. Stewart 
Herman B. Sears 
Maria Van Volkenburgh 

July II, 1845. 
ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Isaac Otis 
William Scott Tryphenia Otis 

Elizabeth Scott Henry W. Mead 

(Airs. Wm.) James Von Beuren 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Mrs. J. Von Beuren 
William Forrest jyjary E- Von Beuren 

Eliza Oakley Forrest 

(Mrs. Wm.) 
Emil Forrest 
Eliza Debow Forrest 
William Sloane 
Euphemia (Mrs. Wm.) 
William O. Lamson 
Robert M. Eeckie 
Ann Robison 
David Patterson 
Elizabeth Patterson 

(Mrs. D.) 

Oct. 31, 1845. 



March 5, 1846. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Barbara G. Gumming 
Grace G. Gumming 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

William C. Hickok, M.D. 
Laura A. Hickok 

(Mrs. Wm. C.) 
Mrs. Anna Halsted 
Mary Ann Wray 
William A. Wheelock 
Elizabeth Libby 



ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Mrs. Isabella Gumming 
Robert I. Brown Marshall Gumming 



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John I. Wilson 
Elizabeth Wilson 
Elizabeth A. Hawes 

(Mrs. Geo. E.) 
Mrs. Elizabeth Mott 

May 6, 1846. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Harriet Romeyn 

Auchincloss 
Julia Beers 
Amelia Morgan 
Anna Jewett 
Catherine Stewart 
Mary S. Briant 
Matilda Bailey 
Deborah Ann Stine 



Catherine M. Ensworth 
Mary B. Ensworth 



Ann Robertson Hall 
Elias Osborn 
Eliza Weeks Osborn 
(Mrs. E.) 



Sept. 9. 1846. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Caroline G. Burrill 3.^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ 

Margaret Kaylor admitted on profesiiok 

Joseph R. Mann 



Nov. 5, 1846. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mrs. Jerusha A. Scott 
Norman Boardman 
Minor H. Fowler 
Anna Y. Boardman 
Mrs. Sarah C. Still 



William Bannard 
Thompson Rowell 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATB 

R. D. Eathrop 
Mrs. R. D. Eathrop 

Nov. II, 1847. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOM 



Jan. 7, 1847. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Mrs. Isabella Tunison 

John Thomas Mrs. Eleanor A. Scott 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE t i. a Tk,r -n 11 

^ TT T ;tii „:„!,„ Joseph A. McDougall admitted by certificate 

Francis Speir Delilu Shafer 

admitted by certificate Catherine E. Shafer 
Josiah S. Eeveritt Charles Stewart 

Sarah Blunt ^^^^y Stewart 

(Mrs. Samuel) 



A. U. Eittlejohn 
Birdseye Blakeman 
Benjamin Blakeman 
William C. VanHorn 
Catharine VanHorn 

(Mrs. Wm. C.) 
Clarissa C. Holman 
Phillip W. Roberts 
Horatio Smith 
Mrs. Sarah Louisa 

Bennett 
Nathan Lane 
Emma Lane (Mrs. N.) 
Charles Scribner 
Aaron Brown 
Dudley Babcock 
Mrs. Ann Babcock 
Mrs. Frances A. Stanton 
Harriet M. Babcock 

July 10, 1846. 



March 11, 1847. 
Maria VanDoren 



(Mrs. Chas.) 
Daniel D. Sahler 
Clara P. Riley 
Mrs. Sarah Grenleaf 
admitted BY certificate Elizabeth Berry 
Sarah Gray Robert M. Oliphant 

Sarah Maria Ellett Mary Sophia V. 

Olyphant 
Benjamin Douglass 
Elizabeth Douglass 



May 6, 1847. 
admitted by certificate 
James Henderson 
Edward D. Fitch 
Thomas J. Ford 
Jane Ford (Mrs. Thos.) 
Sarah Ann Beers 



(Mrs. Benj.) 
Mrs. Mary S. Ball 

Jan. 6, 1848. 
admitted on profession 
JosephWamock 
July 8, 1847. admitted by certificate 

admitted on profession admitted on profession Martha Ann Townsend 

Isabella A. McWilliams- 



John Welsh Mrs. Marion Hewitt 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ^°P^^^ ^' ^^^eman 



Ann Montgomery 

Thompson 
Sarah Crane 

(Mrs. Jno. T.) 
Josiah B. Mann 
Mary Whitney Mann 

(Mrs. Jos. B.) 
Joseph R. Mann 
William S. Libbey 
Elizabeth Libbey 

(Mrs. W. S.) 
Mary Virginia Libbey 
Ann Ensworth 



Jane L. Bailey 
Jonathan G. Little 
William Berwick 
Ellen Duncan Farmer 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Paul Werth 
Luke B. Case 
Mary A. Case 

(Mrs. Luke B.) 
T. D. Lander 
Justine V. Lander 

(Mrs. T. D.) 
Harriet A. Lander 



Atwater (Mrs. 

Wm. L. Atwater) 
Mary Ann Johnson 
Margaret Ferguson 
Mrs. Margaret \"oorhees 
Mrs. Sarah Ann Lindsay 
Thomas Miller Nimmo 
March g, 1848. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Abram Wakeman 
Mary Wakeman 
(Mrs. A.) 
David Edwards 
Eliza Mulligan 



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ADMITTlgD BY CElRTI^ICATE Anna Davidson ADMITrED BY CERTIFICATB 

Rachel S. Wright (Mrs. John) Mrs. Margaret McKay 

(Mrs. Ellis) John Sequier, Jr. ,^ n 

Henry N. Beach May 7, 1850. 

May 10, 1848. ^^^^^^ ^^ B^^^j^ A''''-?i\ ""^ ^^o^^ssiON 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Daniel Halsey 

Mary Ann Holt Jan. 11, 1849. admitted by certieicaTS 

(Mrs. Henry) admitted on profession Anna Eliza Halsey 

Mrs. Catherine Falconer Cornelia Sherman (Mrs. Daniel) 

William Howard Francis P. Colton 

July 14, 1850. 



admitted by certificate admitted by certificate 

c 1 T TIT 11 Tx/r TT ^1 \\T A' ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Samuel L. Morrell Mrs. Esther W. Airey ,^ c ht t? ^ j 

_, A /^ • Ti«- Ti/r • A n^ 1 Mrs. Susan M. Eastmond 

Mary Ann Cuming Mrs. Maria A. Taylor 

„ Jasper W. McGregor Nov. 8, 1850. 

ep ■ 7, 14- Cornelius Rendall admitted on profession 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION g^^^^ Alexander Elizabeth Eibbey 

Edgar Crapo ^^^^ ^' 

Mary Jane Gordon Mar. g, 1849. 

Colin E. Sheldon admitted on profession March 6, 1851. 

ADMITTED by CERTIFICATE ^^^^^ ^^"'^ ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Robert McFarlan "^^^ Eyck Sutphen Harriet E. Wheelock 

Elizabeth McFarlan admitted by CERTIFICATE (Mrs. Wm. A.) 

Jane Gerry Robert Gillan j^ay 9, 1851. 

Elizabeth Bishop Smith S. W. Neal admitted on profession 

Susan M. Smith Newton Ammerman 

James C. Cobb, M.D. j > ty 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Sarah J. Doremus Mrs. Elizabeth R. 

Catherine Falconer Raymond 

Jane Isabella Falconer Mrs. Mary E. Edwards 



Emeline Cobb 

(Mrs. J. C.) 
Henry W. Alden 
Gurdon B. Hotchkin 



„ , /^ T Mrs. Jane Hutchinson ^ , 

Samuel C. Eogan _ ,,.., July 12, 1851. 

_ , „ * Jane Wiley -^ ^ 

John Ryers admitted by certificate 

Mary Woods admitted by certificate Mrs. Sarah H. Wier 

Mrs. Minerva Hall Wilson Phraner ^^^ ^^ ^ 

Samuel M. Fasselt r^;^ , .p.^ °^' '' 

\KT -R -n T7 + TV/T n ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

vym. 15. iJe±<orest, iVl.u. admitted on profession Mrs. Elizabeth Austin 

Mary E. DeForest Washington Frothingham Marv A Aii^tm 

(Mrs. W B.) iviary ^. ^ubim 

T, -Kr tr-' ,' * ADMITTED BY certificate Eli Benedict 

Ezra M. Kingsley ^^^^_ g^^^^ g^.^j^ ^^^^^^ g^^^^.^^ 

(Mrs. E.) 



Elmira W. Kingsley 



Anna Graham Sept. 5, 1849. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION DeC. II, 1851. 

Thaddeus B. Wakeman admitted by certificate 



Nov. 9, 1848. 

admitted on PROFESSION 



William J. Hannington admitted by certificate y^'."*^'"°P.f ' ^^^'"^^ 
■c^i- u ^i \\T Tj • _^ HenrvA Holt Abia b. Gilman 

Elizabeth W. Hannington -neniy rs.. xauic 

/AT ^Ti7 T X (Mrs. W. S.) 

(Mrs. W. J.) AT- p p 

Mary Jane McBirnie ^''''' ^' '^^^- Jan. 8, 1852. 

admitted by certificate 
admitted by certificate John A Stewart admitted on profession 

Joseph N. Sutphin william H. Scott f'^^ ^°™j"f Y^^^^' 

Joseph Holmes Davis Ann Jane Scott George T. Olyphant 

Emma E. Scribner (Mrs. W. H.) admitted by CERTIFICATE 

(Mrs. Chas.) David Codwise 

Mrs. Harriet Sutphen Jan. 11, 1850. Martha Codwise 

I. S. Jenkins admitted on profession (Mrs. D.) 

John Davidson Eydia Palmer (Mrs. B.) Joseph Hyde 



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Catharine Maria Hyde 

(Mrs. J.) 
Charles McEwen Hyde 
Catharine Maria Hyde 
William Walker 
Caroline L,, Walker 

(Mrs. Wm.) 
Mary Haines 
Julia I. Blake 
Agnes Snell 
Eliza Downer 
Edward S. Clarke 
David Beattie 
Elizabeth C. Alexander 
Anna M. Young 

March ii, 1852. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
Eouisa Jay Bruen 
William Irwin 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS 

James M. Halsted 
Catharine C. Halsted 

(Mrs. Jas.) 
Cecelia Patterson 
Alexander M. Bruen 

May 6, 1852. 

ADMITTED ON PROFSSSIOM 

Helen Phyfe 
George Buckham 
W^illiam Paton 
Robert P. Hainea 
Mary Irvin 
Jessie Allen 

ADMITTED BY CERTlFICATS 

Mrs. Charlotte E. M. 

Smith 
Lowell Mason 
Maria L. Mason 

(Mrs. Eowell) 
James A. Webb 
Phebe Webb (Mrs. J. A.) 
Mary Webb 
Jeremiah Baker 
Elizabeth C. Baker 

(Mrs. Jer.) 
Mrs. Margaretta Webb 

July 10, 1852. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATB 

Walter D. Stewart 
Emily Stewart 

(Mrs. W. D.) 
Martha VanDien 
Ferdinand Baker 



John G. Parker 
Jane Parker 

(Mrs. Jno. G.) 
Julia E. Parker 
James Struthers 
Mary Struthers 

(Mrs. Jas.) 
William H. Adams 
Jennett Adams 
Janette Brown 

Nov. II, 1852. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Caroline Amelia 

Murray 
Ellen Eouisa Lambert 
Eliza Downer Forbes 
Fidelia W, Eeverett 
Georgiana Buckham 
Jeremiah C. Eanphier 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Edward Hall, M.D. 
Mrs. Margaret Hall 
Robert Bliss 
Mary Stitt 
Henry B. Hyde 
Charlotte B. Crapo 
Mrs. Lockwood DeForest 
E. Fitch Smith 
Elizabeth Smith 

(Mrs. E. F.) 
Elizabeth E. Smith 
Robert E. Stuart 
Mary Stuart 

(Mrs. R. E.) 
Alexander Stuart 
Alexander W. Murray 
George Sloan 
Matilda Sloan 

(Mrs. Geo.) 
Hannah Sloan 
Martha Sloan 

Jan. 6, 1853. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

James T. Maxwell 
Emily Auchincloss Max- 
well (Mrs. J. T.) 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Michael Young 
Sarah Ann Young 

(Mrs. M.) 
Mrs. Joanna W. P. Peck 
Mrs. Agnes M. Gibson 
Janet F. Gibson 
Henry Day 



Phebe E. Day (Mrs.Hy.) 
Edward Field 
Mrs. Harriet J. McMartin. 
William G. Lambert 
Sarah Lambert 

(Mrs. W, G.) 
Maurice Wurts 
Robert Gordon 
Melancthon Jackson 
William H. Scott 
Ann Jane Scott 

(Mrs. Wm. H.) 
Benjamin Douglass 
Elizabeth Douglass 

(Mrs. Benj.) 
David Olyphant 
Harriet T. Olyphant 

(Mrs. David) 
L H. Field 

March 10, 1853. 

ADMITTED ON PROFSSSIOK 

Bertram Harrison 
Mrs. Jane P. W. Chester 
Benjamin W. Whitlock 
Amelia M. Whitlock 
(Mrs. B. W.) 
Helen Ruth Dov/ner 
Caleb T. Smith 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATB 

Mrs. Anne S. Paton 

Mrs. Albertine M. 
Harrison 

Mary Dunkin 

Matilda Dunkin 

Isabella Dunkin 

George F. Chester 

Caroline Hurry 

Thomas S. Young 

Mary E. Young 

(Mrs. Thos. S.) 

Mrs. Sarah Cowles 

Mrs. VanDusen 

Silas P. Downer 

Sophia Downer 

(Mrs. Silas P.) 

Henry G. Marquand 

Elizabeth Ellen Mar- 
quand (Mrs. H. G.) 

William A. Cummings 

Louisa Cummings 

(Mrs. W. A.) 

William Dodd 

Elizabeth Ann Dodd 
(Mrs. Wm.) 



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235 



Mrs. Mary N. Oliver 
Henry Young 
Ann M. Young 
David Sloane 
Charles F. Park 
Caroline E. Park 

(Mrs. C. F.) 
Frederick W. Macy 
Emily Macy (Mrs. F. VV.) 
Andrew Comstock 
Julia M. Comstock 

(Mrs. A.) 

May 5, 1853. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

William Harris 
Isabella Stal McCulloh 
George Baylis 
Mrs. Sarah Jane Case 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

John Paton 
Oliver S. Strong 
William D. Simonton 
Sarah M. Simonton 

(Mrs. W. D.) 
Mrs. Matilda Heath 
Peter Nelson 
Catherine Nelson 

(Mrs. Peter) 
Horace Hall 
Thomas Gardiner 
Mrs. Thomas Gardiner 
Francis Gross 
Mrs. F. Gross 
Daniel S. Eriant 
Elizabeth R. Briant 

(Mrs. D. S.) 
Sarah Baldwin 
James O. Forrest 
Moses Allen Hoppock 
Ellen lyouise Hoppock 

(Mrs. M. A.) 

July 7, 1853. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Catherine E. Renfold 
Martha H. Andrew 



Martha Young 
Mary McFarlan 
Mary Emma Farwell 

July 7, 1854. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mercedes Glenton 
Mary Amelia Hyatt 
Emma Hyatt 
Emily Ferguson Mann 
Margaret Ogilvie Mann 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Charles Stoughton 
Mrs. Aselia Giraud Wood- 
hull 

Sept. 7, 1854. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mrs. Jane P. Bowie 
Nov. 8, 1854. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Henry Carrington Sarah Cleland 

Alexander Winthrop S. Oilman, Jr. 
Henry Buck Auchincloss 

Ellen Fairley admitted by CERTIFICATE 

A inr ,^ ivr . Mrs. Jane C. Work 
Anna W. McMartin *' 



Adeline Hurry 

(Mrs. Wm.) 

Nov. 10, 1853. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mary Winslow Corning 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Margaret H. Dye 
Mrs. Ann M. Gray 
Mrs. Ruth Terbell 
Henry M. Alexander 
Susan Mary Alexander 
Charles F. Porter 
Harriet M. Porter 

(Mrs. C. F.) 
Franklin Chamberlin 
Mary W. Chamberlin 

(Mrs. F.) 
Robert McCarter 

Jan. 5, 1854. 



Mrs. Agnes Heglett 



Jan. II, 1855. 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 



Mrs. Eliza W. Nevins 
Eliza C. Winslow Robert 
Jane R. Robert 
Beriah Palmer 
Emily Duncan 
Margaret McBride 
Mrs. Ann Mitchill 
Eliza D. Delavan 
Hannah Delavan 
Mrs. Rebecca Smalhvood 

March 9, 1854. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Sarah Y. Stewart 
Margaret Gordon 
Elizabeth McMartin 
James Eraser 
Gilbert I.. Hall 



John S. Lawrence 
Isaac O. Ogden 
Sarah Downer 
Mary Elizabeth Whitaker 
Elizabeth Moffat 
Frederick Wm. Downer 
Harriet Josephine Hyde 
Ellen Fleming 

(Mrs. James) 
Catherine Winslow 

Dov/ner 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Mrs. Elizabeth B. 

Townsend 
Elizabeth Fairley 
Andrew Mason 

March 8, 1855. 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTEDON PROFESSION- 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Robert E- Maitland 
Mary Maitland 

(Mrs. Robt. E.) 



Dr. Alfred ;Freeman 
Eliza Freeman 

(Mrs. Alfred) 
John D. Merriellies 
Jane Merrillies 

(Mrs. J. D.) 
William Hurry 



Moses G. Baldwin 
Mrs. Mary K. Roberts 
Wm. Henry Richards 
Willett Bronson 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 



May II, 1854. 
ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Margaret Coolidge 
Emma Augusta Hoppock (Mrs. Hy.) 

Helen Smith Henry Oothout 



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Josephine Oothout 

(Mrs. Hy.) 
Samuel D. Davis 
Edward H. Owen 
William L,. Skidmore 
Charlotte H. Freeman 
Skidmore (Mrs. 
W. I..) 
Isabella Thompson 
Alexander VanRenssalaer 
Mary Howland VanRens- 
salaer (Mrs. Alex.) 

May 10, 1855. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Margaret Jane Scott 
Mary Adams 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Silas R. Selden 

Irad Hawley 

Sarah Hawley (Mrs. I.) 

Dwight Baker 

Jonathan W. Roberts 

Cornel A. Doolittle 

Harriet W. Bell 

July 6. 1855. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Elisee Charlier 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mrs. Little 
Edward W. Lambert 
William Callender 
Maria Callender 

(Mrs. Wm.) 
James Harrall 
Mrs. Jas. Harrall 
William Vardell 
Susan Vardell 

Nov. 8, 1855. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Cornelius R. Agnew 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Alfred Edwards 
Sophia M. Edwards 

(Mrs. A.) 
John Baird 

Agnes Baird (Mrs. Jno.) 
Jane MuUiner 
George W. Clarke 
Mary I. Clarke 
Mrs. Arietta A. Kelly 
Alfred Carhart 
Mrs. Jane Anderson 
Wm. H. Ludlum 



Julia B. Ludlum 

(Mrs. Wm. H.) 



Lewis Baylis 
Alexander Proudfit Irvin 
Mary Clark 
Anna Heyer Clark 



Jan. 10, 1856. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Charles C. Wilcox admitted by certificatb 

Mary May Mrs. Hannah M. Hall 

Henry S. Terbell George Baylis 

Hannah Dyer Terbell Charles Mathews 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Michael Young 
Ann Young (Mrs. M.) 
Mrs. Julia Ann Blatchford' 
Miss S. E. Blatchford 
Mrs. Julia A. Douglas 
Cyrus Augustus Smith 
Lucius Hopkins 
Nancy M. Hopkins 

(Mrs. L.) 
James Bayles 
Julia H. Bayles 

(Mrs. James) 
Thomas S. Adams 

Mar. 6, 1856. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Frederick G. De Graw 
John J. Crane 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mrs. Mary C. Andrus 
Isabella Todd 
Mrs. Eliza S. Holmes 
Mrs. Sarah Markoe 
Mrs. Charlotte A. Markoe 
James Wright 
Sarah M. Wright 
(Mrs. Jas.) 
Francis Markoe Wright 
Mary Nelson Wright 

May 8, 1836. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Daniel Henry Smith 
Mary Frances Smith 
Elizabeth Moore 
William Philip Heslog 
Lizzie L- Mehaffey 
Helen Dunkin 
Arthur Gilman 
George Elias Hawes 
Annie Hawes 
William H. Beers 
Ethelin E. Beers 

(Mrs. Wm. H.) 
Sarah Agnes Sloane 
Catherine Sloane 



Mrs. Virginia R. Osborne 
Edward W. French 
James Scrymser 
Anna Scrymser 

(Mrs. Jas.) 

July II, 1856. 
ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mary Nash Agnew 

(Mrs. C. R.) 

Samuel L. Mitchill 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Sarah W. Perrine 
Louisa Carrington 
Osborne 

Sept. II, 1856. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

David Irwin 

Jane Irwin (Mrs. David) 

Matilda Warnock 

Nov. 7, 1S56. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Maria Banks 
Mrs. Agnes S. Halsey 
Catherine Nash 
Mrs. Sarah Owen 
Jane Augusta Owen 
Mrs. Mary Louisa 
Halsted 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Alice Mcllwaine 
Mrs. Julia M. Butler 
Margaret Turner 
William S. Soutter 
Mrs. Phebe C. Black 
Mrs. Mary Jessup '■> 

Henry ]\I. Halsey 
Jane B. Pickett 
Frances E. Wright 
Ebenezer H. Burger 
Sophia Burger 
Mary Burger 

(Mrs. E. H.) 
Andrew D. Lillie 
Mrs. Elizabeth M. 

Rowell 



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Jan. 8, 1S57. Margaret Muir Kirk- John Nelson Low 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION wood (Mrs. Jno.) William J. Nevins 

John Penfold William R. Moore (Jr.) Catharine Anna Nevins 

Harriet Josephine Caryl Mrs. Mary E. Howe Ann Maria Mitchill 

Maria Mollard Mary Louisa Mitchill 

Ester Russell Waterman ^^^- ^' ^^^^- Margaret Mitchill 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION -,;■ , , t, . 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Alice Young y/^"°^ f^^^^^y ^°^"^ ^ 

Mrs. Isabella Gourlie ^- Caroline McCorraick 
Jacob H. Patton ^""^S" ^l ^^^"^^^^^^ Sarah Ann Leverich 

Caroline D. Patton ?,""^^, fj^f ^iC „ Anna Park 

(Mrs J H) Elizabeth C. Hoadley Henry W. Peck 

Jabes Hazard " * ^^^''^" ^^^^'^^ Mrs. Phebe Ann Penfold 

Margaret H. Lord ^1''^^^^ """tt m ^"' ^""^ ^'°^" 

Elizabeth C. Hoadley gaily Coffield Cox 

Mar. 5, 1857. Jan. 7, 1858. J^"^^^ White ^ 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Elizabeth White 
Elizabeth L Irwin j^Ugn Paddon (Mrs. Jas.) 

Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Adolphus Smedburg lyUcretia Rachel Mott 

Oakley garah Eraser Stevenson Charles Day Cowles 

Frances Gordon (Mrs. Jas. S.) Peter McMartin 

(Mrs. R.) Jane McMartin 

■r^ . J A .- ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE -ci rr ,, 

Dorinda Austin _, ^ t> r Florence Kelly 

„., T^ Mrs. Susanna P. Lees ^ ^, t> t 

Silas Downer o u t c. i.. Esther R. Leverett 

, ^ . ^-. J Sarah J. Stoughton . . 

Laura Louisa Hazard _, ,. . Annie H. Laurie 

Duncan Laurie ,, ,, . ,,. , 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Patrick Allen ^'% ^^"^ ^^^^^'^^ 

Edsall Ferrier Mrs. Mary Floyd ^t "^ ^f ^^°" 

Howard Crosby n,,,,^,^ "" ^U \.r ^ 

Mrs. Margaret E. Crosby (M'^s. Wm.) 

Mrs. Helen Ashton Mar. 11, 1858. Charles Lanier 

Mrs. Sophia Smith admitted on profession Robert L. Stuart Paton 

Mrs. Burger Henrietta Bayles ^^^y Young 

Margaretta I. Day '^^^- I^aura G. Graham 

May 7, 1857. Olive Harriman Elizabeth Fenton 

admitted on profession Laura Harriman Sarah Lee 

Mrs. Emeline Low (Mrs. O.) Horace I. Fairchild 

Lucy Baldwin Hyde James R. Jesup Robert W. Halsted 

Sarah Augusta Burger John Stevens William A. Halsted 

Andrew Gifford Agnew Elizabeth Nevins James W. Alexander, Jr. 

Robert McCormick Stephen Rich Struthers 

HT -LT u t:^!- u 4.1- ADMITTED BY certificate A C^ ^t, 

Mrs. Hannah Elizabeth -. , .^ xr t j Agnes Struthers 

Margaretta H. Lord „^ r. t • • 

Fenner .,, , ^ „, , Henry P. Livingston 

>T c r, u Alfred L- Edwards ,, \ ^,- 

Mrs. Susanna Reynolds -r. ,,. -r. ,^ •, Mrs. Ann Eliza 
_ „^ ^ Dr. Wm. P. Cassidy ^ , ., 

James Stevenson ,, . ,,r ^ Breckenndge 

\k K -o Morris W. Lyon n/r t? c, 

Mrs. Ann Barry T h 11 "R T Mary E. Sloane 

# Andrew Mcllvaine ,, , * ?! . -^, , Mason Young 

T TIT Ti • (Mrs. Morns W.) t,, , „., 

Jane Mcllvame t t ji -r^ Theodore Gilman 

/ivT \ J \ J- Ludlow Durmont „ tin •^• 

(Mrs. And.) 1^ Henry Whitin 

Horace Howell ' Mrs. Caroline Townsend 

Mrs. Christina McDonald May 6 l8'i8 Mrs. Mary Ann 

Miss Eliza Barnaby admitted on profession Monahan 

John Haines Phillis Penny Mrs. Ann Jane 

John Twibill Fanny Tracy Williamson 

admitted BY certificate Mary Jane Whitlock William Isaac Townsend 

John Kirkwood James Low Mary Ann McCallum 



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Jane Annie Scrymser Mrs. 

Clarissa Eliza Brown 

Daniel R. Noyes, Jr. Mrs. 

Mrs. Mary E. Hyatt Maurice Marks 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE J^"^^^ Leggatt 



Christiana Richard Moore 

Rutherford Eliza Hall 

Margaret Kennedy Mrs. Maria H. Gassner 
Mary Jane Woodburn 
Mary Jane Ferguson 



L,. Amanda Williams 
Mrs. Sarah E. Lanier 
Mrs. Mary Louisa 
Fairchild 



July 8, 

ADMITTED ON 



1858. 
PROEESSION 



Mary Norwood 
Elbert Stewart 
William M. Cummings 
William J. Nevins, Jr. 
Mrs. Mary Ann Stead 
Emily Norwood 
Helen Stewart 
Richard Burton 
Helen Abia Oilman 
Edward L. Owen 
Edith N. Macy 
Sarah Richards Beers 
James H. Young 



John De Merseman 
Robert Smith 
Margaret Smith 

(Mrs. R.) 
John Quincey 
Mary Ann Quincey 

(Mrs Jno.) 
Mrs. Catharine McLagan 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mrs. Mary McFarlane 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mrs. Mary Jane 

Robinson 
Jane Orant 

Mar. 10, 1859. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOK 

William Stuart 

Auchincloss 



Emily Robb Mulligan 
Julia Hyatt 
Nov. II, 1858. Rebecca Long 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATIJ 

Harriet Louisa Edwards ^rs. Martha A. Leavitt 

Cornelius Heyer Clark Mrs. Margaret Barbour 
Margaret S. Barbour 

Mrs. Elizabeth B. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Huntington 

Mrs. Sarah Teefair 

Wm. O. Turner 



Susan W. Irvin 
Thaddeus J. Whitlock 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Ourdon Burchard 
Mrs. Emily C. Corwin Simon d'Visser (Sr.) 



Sept. g, 1858. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Henrietta Louisa Scott 
Edward Sturgis 
Henry Haywood 



Charles A. Silliman 
James Johnstone 
Mrs. Martha W. Lambert 
Israel Minor 
Mrs. Charlotte Louisa 
Minor 



Simon d'Visser (Jr.) 

Sophia d'Visser 

(Mrs. Simon, Jr.) John C. Minor 
^ . a Henry Heath 

Jan. 6, 1B59. Mrs. Frances E. Heath 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ^, • ^. -o j 

P V, \T f'irl Christiana Bradner 

.ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE i^ebecca Matilda ^^^^^^ g^ Woodman 

Charles B. Smith I'T \,. Mrs. Jane L. Woodman 

Mrs. Emeline Misner ., , o t^- 
Oct. 8, 1858. J^^^ S. Pierson 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Thomas D. Urmston 
Archibald Sherrand 

May 5, 1859. 
Feb. 9, 1859. 



ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

David Killock 
Joseph Taylor 
Anna Bella Taylor 

(Mrs. Jos.) 
Mrs. Eliza Kelly 
Mrs. J. Black 
Wm. Baelz 

Mary Baelz (Mrs. Wm.) 
David Young 
Elizabeth Young 

(Mrs. David) 
Hcndrick Constantine 

Frerichs 
Henrietta Wilhelmina 

Frerichs (Mrs. 

H. C.) 
Thomas Simpson 
Mrs. Sarah McNally 



ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION James Beveridge 
Thomas Cochran 



George Anderson 
Sarah Ann Anderson 
Mathev/ W. Sampy 
Mary Sam.py 

(Mrs. M. W.) 
William Muir 
Mrs. Mary Robinson 
Mrs. Margaret Lucas 
Mrs. Marion Vv'arner 
Joseph Williamson 
Thomas Ross 
INIrs. Sarah McConnell 
Mrs. Esther Nelson 
Mrs. Sarah Williamson 
Mrs. Ann Atkinson 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Henry C. Whitmarsh 
Leonard A. Bradley 
John Kennedy 
Mrs. Jane Hutchinson 
Mary A. Hutchinson 

June 15, 1859. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Mary Ann Twibill 
Mrs. Christiana Briands 
John Sterling 
Janet Sterling 

(Mrs. Jno.) 



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Amelia Starr Jan. lo, 1861. Dr. Isaac K- Taylor 

Letitia Crawford admitted on profession Mrs. M. J. Taylor 

David Gassner Oscar Smedberg William Piatt, Jr. 

Elizabeth Gall 
Nov. 2, 1859. Oct. 9, 1861. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Pgb. 6, 1861. ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Adeline Hawkins admitted on profession Martha J. Danforth 

John Atherton John Inglis Catherine L. Campbell 

Mary Ann Atherton ^gnis Inglis Allan Stirling 

(Mrs. Jno.) Letitia A. Rutherford 

.-.f T T> \ ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATB 

ADMITTED BV CERTiEiCATB (Mrs. Jas. R.) g^^^^j Cockburn 

Mrs. Elizabeth G. Ehza Heslop Cockburn (Mrs. S.,) 

Nairne (Mrs. Wm. P.) "^ ' 

John Alexander Perry Mrs. Catharine R. Nov. 7 1861. 

Agnes Perry (Mrs. J. A.) Masters admitted on profession 

James Massie Mrs. Abigail R. Olmsted E;mma Galbraith 

Ann W. Massie Mrs. Nancy Leonard Mary Ann Kelly 

(Mrs. Jas.) admitted by certificate admitted by certificate 

Nov. 10, 1859. J°^" Forsyth Herman B. Sears 

admitted on profession ^""^ ^' Forsyth ^rs. Catharine Nash 

Mrs. Catharine B. (Mrs. Jno.) Mary Augusta Sears 

Lockwood William Keith i^^s. Annie B. Jessup 



ADMITTED BY c^^tieicaTS March 6, 1861. j,„. ^^ ,S62. 

Mrs. Jennet F. R. Bhss admitted on profession admitted on profession 

Feb. 8, i860. Robert L. Smith Wm. Vernon, Jr. 

admitted on proeessiom admitted by cerTiEicaTS Fanny Nott 
John Thompson Alice Smedberg admitted by certificate 

Stewart Shirley ^^^^' Oscar) j^^j-y G. Fowler 

(Mrs. Jno.) j^^y ^^^ jg^^^ Virginia Penny 

John Shirley ^ admitted on' pkofession Anthony Arnoux 

Mrs. Margaret Kidd James H. Walker Clementine W. Arnoux 

Moore John F. Aiken 

admitted by CERTIEICATE . , -r XT -1 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ^ ^^ jjurlbut ^"^^"^' ^' ^""^^^ 

D. Olyphant Vail ^ o tj ii, ^ 

Susan R. Hurlbut ^^j,_ ^^ ^^^^_ 

Mar. 7, 1S60. (Mrs. H. A.) admitted on profession 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Mfs. Anna D. Thomson j^^^ Thomas Stanley 

Margaret E. Baird Mrs. Ophelin Sayre Andrew Knox 

May 10, i860. E^i^y A. Sayre Edward Roe 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Flizabeth H, Sayre Eleanor Moore 

Elizabeth W. Wheelock Jo"" Seaman Isabella Mcleod 

CMrs Tno W ) ^rs. Jno. Seaman 

(.mrs. jiiu. vv.y ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Elizabeth Hoppock j-„„^ ^^ jg^^^ Catharine Laird 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

William Irwin William' Collins March 6. 1862. 

June 6, i860. Catharine Collins admitted on profession 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION (Mrs. Wm.) Theodore M. Nevins 

Mrs. Sophia Herring Thomas A. Reynolds Mary Struthers 

Mrs. Mavia Jones ,,^,,,,, 3, certificate ^!''- 1^'^"" ."^"^ ^.T'"^ 

Forrest Mrs. Isabelle Stewart ^"" ^^"^ ^"^""^^ 

Mrs. Margaret Harris admitted by CERTIFICATE 

Edward Pinner July 11, 1861. Parker Handy 

David McCormick admitted by certificate Cornelia S. Handy 

James Rutherford Chas. P. Noyes (Mrs. P.) 



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Susan Marie Bliss 
(Mrs. Robt.) 

Mrs. Maria C. Sloan 

John T. Gilchrist, Jr. 

Anna C. Gilchrist 

(Mrs. Jno. T.) 

Mrs. Catharine P. Rice 

Lizzie G. Rice 

Mrs. Jane Swift 

Loring Andrews 

Blandina B. Andrews 
(Mrs. L.) 

Mary A. Hayward 



May 9, 1862. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Eliza I. Swift 
Mrs. Mary C. Auchinclossj^j-s. Sophia S. Buck 
Charles B. Alexander James Cowper Lord 
Archibald McMartin Thomas Sinclair 



Oct. 8, 1862. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Catherine B. Laurie 
Mrs. Margaret 

Henderson 
Mrs. Margaret Hewitt 
Ellen Leonard 

Nov. 6, 1862. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Peter Rowe 
Margaret Stevenson 

Rowe (Mrs. P.) 
Henry E. Hawley 
Elizabeth J. Lockwood- 

Hawley 
Thomas Sinclair 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Homer Morgan 
Esther S. Leveritt 
Mrs. J. E. F. Ban 
Carrie E- Stansberry 
John T. Lawrence 
Ervilla Lawrence 
(Mrs. J. T.) 
Thomas W. Hughes 
July 10, 1862. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Christiana 

McNaughton 
Mrs. Janet Stewart 
Mrs. Elizabeth Thomson 
Constant A. Andrews 
Mary Jane Sloane 
Mrs. Elizabeth Disbrow 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Gilbert Thompson 
Isaac S. Barrett 
Jeanie H. Barrett 

(Mrs. L S.) 
Mrs. Harriet N. Burgy 
Sept. II, 1862. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Olivia iioadley 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

John H. McKie 
Louisa R. McKie 

(Mrs. Jno.) 
George H. Petrie 
Emma F. Petrie 
Mrs. Mary J. Houghton 
Sarah Ann Moore 



Jan. 8, 1863. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Jas. Henry Work 
Thomas Forrest 
Mrs. Hester Strang 
Josephine Young 
Mrs. Virginia M. Hook 
Harriet Dewitt Mitchill 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Ezra White 
Nancy Ann White 
(Mrs. Ezra) 
William W. Wakeman 
Geo. Trull 

Feb. 4, 1863. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Mary Jane Purvis 
Mrs. Mary Ann Kellock 
Robert Robinson 
Jane Robinson 

(Mrs. Robert) 
Alexander Campbell 
Alexander Whitehill 

March 5, 1863. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Janet F. Baird 
G. Livingston ]\Iorse 
Mrs. Ella Eraser 
George A. St. John 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Theodore H. Conger 
James Paton 



May 7, 1863. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Charles Davis 
Zachariah L. Edwards 
Ella H. Butler 
Elizabeth Ellen 

Auchincloss 
Eliza Maitland 
Alexander Maitland 
Henrietta Hawes 
John B. Hawes 
Caroline L. R. Rice 
Louise Mitchill 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Elizabeth Chesney 
June 10, 1863. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Elizabeth H. McCart 
Janet L. Killock 
Elizabeth Killock 
Mary Miles (Mrs. J.) 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mrs. Isabella Gordon 
Isabella B. Gordon 
Mrs. Mary Baker 
Mrs. Maria Wilson 

July 9, 1863. 
ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
Mary Norris 

Oct. 8, 1863. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mary Ann Wray 
Cornelia S. Wray 
Margaret Norris 
James Alexander Baird 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Frederick Hosford 
Mrs. Jane Taylor 
Wm. E. Morris 
Mary Morris 
Thos. B. Morris 

Oct. 14, 1863. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Janet Moore 

Dec. 10, 1863. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Edgar S. Auchincloss 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Elizabeth Sterling 

James B. Thomson 

Mary C. Thomson 

(Mrs. J. B.) 



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Mary G. Thomson 
Archibald A. Stevenson 
Mrs. Ann Brown 
Mary Jane Thompson 

Feb. II, 1864. 

ADMITTED BY CEIRTIFICATS 

William C. Noyes 
Mns. Jane R. Noyes 
Fannie L,. Noyes 
James W. Noyes 
Brodnax Atkinson 
Vernon C. Jarboe 



June 15, 1864. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Jessie Ann Ferguson 
Mary Stirling 
Catharine Roome 

ADMITTED BY CERTlElCATfi 

Richard Hall Brown 
Mary Cameron Brown 

(I\Irs. R. H.) 
Mary Hamilton 
Margaret Longstreet 

(Mrs. S.) 



Feb. 17, 1864. Oct. 6, 1864. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Ellen Morrow Charlotte How Markoe 

Girard Graham 
Caroline Louisa Gross 
Edward F. Walker 
Mary Augusta Smith 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Charles Rogers Scribner 
James C. Nightingalje 

Oct. 12, 1864. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Sophia Holzberger 
Reuben John Atherton 
David Morris Gassner 
Maria Amanda Gassner 
Margaret Cassadey 
James Cassadey 



John Sterling 
Ellen Sterling 

(Mrs. Jno.) 
Mrs. Catharine Minor 
Mrs. Elizabeth Louisa 

Jackson 
Eliza Jane McKinty 
Mitilda J. Pearson 
Susan Connor 
Margaret A. Reynolds 
Mrs. Elizabeth Craig 
Mary L. Steward 
Mary Wildbort 
Anna Eliza McClure 
Mary A. McNatty 
James Hayes 
James Miles 
James Fleming 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
James Boothwick 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Jesse Boothwick 
Mrs. Margaret Mawhinny (Mrs. Jas.) 



James Rutherford 
Letitia A. Rutherford 

Dec. 8, 1864. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Harvey Fisk 

Louisa Fisk (Mrs. H.) 



Sarah Clelland 

April 7, 1864. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Sarah Lord Day 
Charles EUis Morris 
Charles Sargent 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ^^s. Francis B. Mortimer 
Bernard Paine John R. Smith 

Roswell Graves 
June 9, 1864. Eliza Annette Graves 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION (MrS. R.) 

Harriet F. Kelly Mary Hobart Graves 

Catharine M. Ashton ^liza Schuyler Graves 

Thomas C. Sloane Wilison B. Shaw 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Margaret E. Shaw 
Wilhelm Jung (Mrs. W. B.) 

T. Benton Taylor Robert A. C. Shaw 

Ellen M. Taylor John Sinclair 



Feb. 9, 186$. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Ann Buckhaw 

(Mrs. Geo. B.) 
Mrs. Rebecca Susan 

Burkholder 
Mary Caroline Barnes 

(Mrs. Hy W.) 
John H. Mortimer 
Ewen Mclntyre 
Amelia Mclntyre 

(Mrs. Ewen.) 
Ida Bristol 
John James Irvin 
Mrs. Lavinia C. Van 

Embery 
Obed Daw 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

John A. Stewart 
Sarah Y. Stewart 

(Mrs. Jno. A.) 
Wm. A. W. Stewart 
Joseph Gamble 
Edward K. Norris 
Eliza Mills 

(Mrs. Andrew M.) 
Mrs. Sarah L. Bright 
Martha Moorehead 

Feb. 13, 1865. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION- 

Mrs. Eliza McCurdy 
Mrs. Elizabeth Snyder 
Elizabeth Connor 
Ellen Smith 
Mrs. Matilda Wood 

April 6, 1865. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Elizabeth Work 
Fannie C. Bunker 
Helen B. Ashton 
Mrs. Elizabeth Whitfield 
Mrs. Almira R. Sears 
Julia Wray 
Mrs. Helen Aurelia 
Viele 

June 8, 1865. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Archibald Barklie 
Oct. 5, 1865. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

George H. Sloane 
Elizabeth Cochran 



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ADMITTED BY CSRTIFICATE Oct. 12, iS66. Sarah B. Phillips 

John C. Maxwell admitted by certificate Edith Phillips 

Frederick Driggs Mrs. Caroline M. Wilde Augusta VanWinkle 

Elizabeth L. Gregory Mrs. Cordelia R. Badean Lucinda VanWinkle 
Isaac A. Crane Lucinda Bailey 

Sarah J. Crane * ' ' Matilda Bailey 

(Mrs. I. A.) T^^^^'lr^" u''^ 7°"^'^^°^ Ellen H. Trull 

I. N. Ewell ^"- ^^^"^^;^^ ^- Henry A. Swift 



Crowther 



Mary A. Swift 



Hugh B. Jackson 
Elizabeth I. Jackson 
(Mrs. H. B.) 
James Cochran 



^ , „, Frederick L. Auchincloss ... , o -r. 

Dec. 6,1865. John Hewitt Abby J^ Swift 

ADMITTED ON profession ^ockwood DeForest {f "^"^ \ Reynolds 

Anna Fitch Hyde 1•^r■^^^ r i • Russel Kennedy 

.-, ^:: -, . William Larkin ..^ „, . „ .^. 

(Mrs. Hy B.) -^. . a H t " ^^^"^^"8 Smith 

Charles Francis Park ' Helen McGraw Smith 

W. W. Wakeman (Jr.) admitted by certificate 

Mrs. Nancy P. Wheelock P^h. 5, 1B67. 

admitted by certificatb j^jj.g ^jj^^ Redrow admitted on profession 

Henry Rawls ^^^.^^ ^^^ p.ancis Rogers 

Julia R. Rawls j;miiy Stewart 

(Mrs. Hy) ^ p^j^ y^ ^^^^ Mary L. Hall 

J. Dickinson Condict admitted on profession Sherman J. Bacon 

Emma A. Terbell Mary C. Bacon 

Peh. 8, 1866. Adelaide Hoadley Johnston McCullough 

admitted on profession Blanche Andrews Kate Norris 

Adrian S. Clark William J. Pate John Holmes 

ADMITTED BY certificate Richard M. Blatchford Fanny Kimball 
Sarah A. Watson 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Geo. LeCrosier David Irwin 

Mary I. Walker Jane Irwin 

Catharine Jackson Eliza Wakeman 

Joseph Patterson 

Ai^ril s J866 ^^""'^ ^^' ^^^^' S^^^^ ''^- McKnight 

admitted on profession Sarah N Davis 

ADMITTED on PROFESSION y . ,. oardii iM . i^avis 

Susie Brown ^"^^ ^ t. Frances J. Hazelhurst 

Euphemia Sloan f^l T^^ "" ^'^'^ ^^' ^^^'' 

Emma P. Young J"^^^ \ ^"^^^ Elizabeth Ogburn 

Grace Davison Lord ^^"^^l ^: ^^'^ , Helen B. VanZandt 

„ „ _ -. , Sarah W. Boardman t t? Tyrpj p^rl 

Susan DeForest I,ord „, ^ w T J- ■«. mcivCoa 

Caroline H Park i nomas b. loung, Jr. admitted by certificate 

Mrs. Ellen Hopkins Ij^'^'' ^ %f^' ^^^^^^ Ferris 

Smith William H. Sturges james Duff 

Thomas P. Gilman Dec. 5, 1867. Charles Dunlop 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ^^""/^J^.- ^'^f " 

Mrs. Kate M.Motley Joseph Morehead. M.D. f ^^- ^'''^''^ 

Charlotte Chambers Hall J- ^^- Bnsboll 
June 7, 1866. Janetta W. Alexander Nina Fravey 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Archibald Alexander Carrie T. Green 

William Henry Clark Thomas Emberson Ivanna W. P. Peck 

Isabella Cochran J. O. Taylor ^^^^y H. Agnew 

Helen Cochran Julia B. DeForest April 7 1867 

Anna T. Mortimer admitted by certificate admitted on profession 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Mary Jane Morehead Jane Peel 

James Hyde Young Frederick W. Whittemorejohn L,. Gross 

W. E. Childs Owen W. Whittemore Margaret Demarest 

Mrs. Eliza Childs Howard C. Phillips Jane A. Demarest 



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243 



Mary T. Crane 
Henry Sloane 
Wm. D. Sloane 
Susan VanWagenen 
Christiana VanWagenen 

April 7, 1868. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Wm. K. Major 
Mary L. Major 
George S. Dana 
Sarah Hawkins 
Edward Arnold 
Isabella S. Marbury 
i:ila Bristoll 

June JO, 1868. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Albert B. Boardman 
Margaret B. Monahan 
Adeline M. Irwin 
Susan Taylor 
Mary C. Scott 
Charlotte A. Scott 
D. E^dwin Hawley 
Annie Gass 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Mary Matson 
Emily C. Macy 
Charles K. I^udlum, M.D. 
Jennie White I^udlum 
John Phyfe 
James Smith 
Alex. Ferguson 
Albert Phillips 
William Campbell 
Jane JE). Campbell 
Emma Campbell 
Robert Bonner 
Jane Bonner 

Oct. 7, 1868. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Elizabeth Abbott 
Charlotte C. Eeland 
Louisa Taylor 
James Taylor 
Margaret Flight 
Charles W. White 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Malcolm McMartin 
Isabella McPherson 
Mary R. Struthers 
Stephen R. Struthers 
Agnes Struthers 



Anne Struthers 
Alex. J. Howell 
A. Howell 
Alex. Murray 
Catharine Murray 
Marion Murray 
Robert A. Murray 
George Murray 
James Bingham 
Samuel J. Curtis, Jr. 
James H. Young 
Sophia D. Young 
Adolphus Smedborg 
Mary L. Smedborg 
Catharine W. Juny 
Gertrude Juny 
Jenny Moffitt 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
A. H. McKenzie 

E. H. Sherrer 
Catherine McCloskry 
Mary Read 
Charles F. StoU 
Matilda Perry 
Emeline C. Sherwood 

F. S. Bradford, M.D. 
James E- Bishop 

R. E. Morrell 
Frances E. Orcutt 
Hampden Waldron 
Charles D. Miller 
John H. Eockwood 



April 8, 1869. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Henry Demarest 



Hampden Osborne 
Margaret Skinner 
Donald Campbell 
M. E. Dandridge 
Aam Bride 
Agnes Henry 
George D. Phelps 
Harriet A. Phelps 
David Perry 



Dudley M. Ferguson 
Elliot McCormick 
Alex. Guthrie McCosh 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATB 

Hanna Whitton 
Mary Munro 
Joseph A. Welch 
Mary A. Welch 
Caroline V. Ferguson 
Donald McGregor 
John J. Crane, M.D. 

ADMITTED ON^ PROFESSION ^^^j-^^^ ^^ p^^^ 



Dec. 10, 1868. 



Fitzgerald O'Connor 
Jane Matchett 
Elizabeth H, Carlton 
John E. Gross 
Julia Bartlett 



Anna C. Jones 
John E. Stryker 
Margaret Mundell 
Mary Ann Houston 
E. DeCockerille 



Annie E. Wilson- 
Miss Crov/e 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Eliza Atkinson 

Martha Perry Henry H. Wilson 

Jacob D. Vermilye Annie N. Armstrong 

Mary C. Vermilye George Mowen 

^ . „, David Patterson 

Peh. II, 1869. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Sarah Jane Bradford 
Persis M. Olney 
Eveline Van Winkle 
S. J. Armstrong 
Wm. Alex. Ferguson 
Margaret Lord 
Mary S. Sheffield 
Maria E. Belshaw 
Catharine Nelson 
Matilda A. Ferguson 



Mary N. Nancy 
Robert E. Maitland, Jr. 



June 10, 1869. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Jane Augusta Kasbrouck 
Sarah B. Eeverett 
Chas. W. McClelland 
Mary Henrietta Avery 
Robert Hoe 
Thyrza Ploe 
Susan T. Irvin 
Esther Smith 
Amelia M. Rogers 



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Oct. 7. 1869. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Charles S. Orr 
Sarah T. Sands 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Cornelius R. Agnew 
Mary Nash Agnew 
Emily Hall 
Mary A. Herrington 

Dec. g, 1869. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

lyinda Marquand 
Margaret DeCockerille 
John Van Santvoord 
Sarah E. Wilson 
Jacob VanWagenen 
James McKennal 
Henry King 
Laura Hoe 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Bartholomew Brown 
Ann R. Brown 
Lidia W. Brown 
Sarah W. Brown 
Sarah Hoyt lyce 
Elizabeth Patterson 
Sarah Pattison 
Charles B. Soutter 
Maria E. Upton 
Charles W. Carpenter 
Horace Durne 
Eidia G, Jarvis 
Milicent Jarvis 
Horace W, Robbins, Jr. 
Mary A. Robbins 
Sarah Turner 
Stephen Dodge, M.D. 

Feb. 10, 1870. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOH 

Sarah J. Rossbrough 
George E. Hodge 
Thomas Balmer 
Anna S. Maxwell 
Sepbimus E. Swift 
Annie M. Sloan 
Adelaide Branan 
Sarah McCartney 
Wm. George Marshall 
George St. John Sheffield 
William Kelley 
Rosa Murray 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS 

Maria S. Huberty 



Mary Prince 
George R. Aitken 
Mary Jane Adams 
Wm. H. Braman 
John L. Brower 
Margaret Dow 
William Alexander 
John Parton 
Amelia Allen 

April 8, 1870. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Thos. Hall Faile 
Caroline Murray 
Sarah Holmes 
Bleecker N. Mitchell 
Marcus Walker 
Daniel P. Hathaway 
Frank M. Bonta 
Wm. O. Brewster 
Wm. ^. Darrah 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mary Douglass 
Harriet G. Walker 
Caroline G. Tappan 
George D, Phelps, Jr. 
John Eeeper 
Charles E. Cochran 
Eveline Cannon 

May 14, 1870. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Henry Hopkins 
Mary Plopkins 
Jeannette Torrey 
Thomas Swanton 
Catherine Jordan 
James Jordan 
Jane McCarton 
Mariah Phillips 
Margaret Campbell 
Ann Jane Anderson 
Margaret Doherty 
Rebecca White 
Crawford Lynn 
Mary Ann Lynn 
James McCullough 
Emily Ebbets 
Sarah Ebbets 
Jane Gardiner 
Elenor Rowe 
Elizabeth Martin 
Emily Phillips 
Rachel Anderson 



June 9, 1870. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Francis B. Thurber 
Robert McAlester 
Sarah Hawley 
Robert W. Hall 
Annie Blagden 
Duncan M. G. Crerar 
Emma Barnes 
Wm. Lewis Wakefield 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Laura W. Curtis 
Jeanette Thurber 
Mary L. Halsted 
Frances M. Wells 
Sarah E. Welch 
Samuel P. Blagden 
Mrs. Carrier 
Miss Carrier 

Oct. 6, 1870. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Maria Halsted 
James Moorhead 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mason Thompson 
Mary Ann Thompson 
Jessie Campbell Crerar 
Ann Vint 

Albert V/. VanWinkle 
VanAUen Pugsley 

Dec. 8, 1870. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mary Campbell 
Margaret Campbell 
D. McMartin Niven 
Joseph M. Ginn 
John Murray 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Morris K. Jesup 
Maria DeWitt Jesup 
Abby S. Jesup 
Franklin C. Davis 
John Redpath 
Margaret Mercer 

Samuel Beach Jones, Jr. 
Isabella G. Paton 
Samuel Kingham 

Feb. 9, 1871. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Karl Rudolphe Heike 
Lucas L. VanAllen 
Isabella E. McCormick 



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Isabella F. McCormick 
Isabella McNaughton 
Jenny W. Olcott 
Mary P. Warner 
Charles M. Jesup 
Allen Marguand 
Catherine S. 
Margaret Fraser 
Elmer Perilson 
Wm. H. Dyckman 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Alice Williams 
Thos. Hall Rutherford 
Harrison Downes 
Frances C. Melton 
Jennie Melton 
Thomas Borland 
Robert Cushman 
Edgar A. Hamilton 
Eliza Clark 
Elizabeth Robertson 
Robert H. Robertson 
Fanny Clark 

April 4, 1871. 

ADMITTED ON PROEESSION 

Jane Brennan 
Elizabeth Hopkins 
Margaret McCuUough 
Jeannie Semon 
Mary Jordan 
Florence Wingrove 
Harriet King 
Sarah Hobley 
M. Neill 
James Watson 
William Roe 
James Wingrove 
Hester Wingrove 
Anna M. Stugard 
Maria Enright 
Margaret Doyle 
Isabella Watson 
Margaret Nichol 
Isabella DeVoe 
Catherine DuBoyce 
Rebecca Rookliff 
Wm. F. Moller 
Caroline P. Whitlock 
Wm. A. F. Henningsen 
Jeannie T. Kenyon 
Richard H. Hall 
Caroline P. T. Crawford 
Alice D. Pegran 
Fredk. Augustus Dwight 



Margaret Dowey 
William A. Paton 

ADMITTED BY CERTIEICATK 

Magdeiana Schrel 
Jeannie McKay 
Mary Ann P. Swift 
Kate M. Bennott 
Margaret Watson 
Joseph A. Barron 
Lewis Randolph Smith 
Caroline Mary S. Smith 
Fanny F. Avery 
Mary A. Averry 
Mary J. McKennell 
Mary Breeton 
Benj. R. Pegram 
Effia J. Scott 
Geo. C. Ewen 
Anne A. McEwen 
Jane A. Miller 

June 8, 1871. 

ADMITTED ON PROEESSION 
Emily Auchincloss 

Maxwell 
Elizabeth Mason 
Harriet M. Kelley 
Bolton Hall 
Annie Burbank 
Helen Andrews Marvin 

ADMITTED BY CERTIEICATB 

Sarah B. Clark 
Nannette B. Clark 
Bessie B. Clark 
Nathan G. Samson 
Ellen Fay Samson 
John N. Bradley 
Mary W. Bradley 
Mary W. Bradley 
Helen W. Bradley 
Elizabeth N. Bradley 
B. Blakeman 
Anna M. T. Blakeman 
Marianna Blakeman 
George W. Perkins 
Agnes Nicoll 

Oct. 5, 187 1. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Robert W. Hamilton 
Eliza Lewis Smith 
Augusta A. Smith 
Allen D. Grant 
Mary D. Breckenridge 
Fanny B. Marshall 



Jane G. Griffin 
Adelaide L. Whitlock 

ADMITTED BY CERTIEICATR 

Henry L. Bernstein 
Calvin Keyser 
E. C. Hood 
Franke S. Williams 
Alexander White 
Margaret Martin 
William A. Harris 
Catherine M. Butler 
Florence 

Thomas H. Butler 
William Millar 
John T. Wilson 
Anne Wilson 
Charlotte E. Wilson 
Thomas Kussell 
Mrs. Russell 

Nov. 9, 1871. 

ADMITTED BY CERTlElCATS 

Luther Barton 

Dec. 5, 1871. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Marion Gray Tod 
Gertrude E. Moran 
Charles M. McBride 
Alwin H. Dodd 
Catherine Pape 
Blanche M. Crichton 
Mary Ann McKeiinal 
Ella Beardslee 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Saada Gregory 
George Borgfelt 
Harriet Carson 
Archibald Thompson 
Sarah B. Vernon 
William Smith 
John D. Borbner 
Jane Rich 
George Gall 
Mrs. Gall 
E. Otto Rudert 

Feb. 8, 1872. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

William A. Fraser 
Minnie W. Whitlock 
Chas. P. Leverich 
Ellen McNally 
John J. McCook 
Emily M. Blois 
William Irwin 



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Delia Rich 
Thomas Scott 
Arthur McDaniel 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Amelia M. Whitlock 
Henry S. Whittemore 
Mary G. B or don 
Julia A. Whittemore 
Lucy G. Whittemore 
Newton Amerman 
Mary F. Amerman 
Sarah Taylor 
George Taylor 
Agnes McNaught 
William Shear 
Margaretta M. Shear 
Duncan G. Turner 
Mrs. Turner 
Robert S. Sinclair 
John Sinclair 
Fanny C. Sinclair 
Matilda M. Lenn 
Alexander White, Jr. 
Anastasia V. Boise 
lyucinda Richardson 

April II, 1872. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Frederick Nash Owen 
Mary Pittfield Griffin 
Gertrude Horton 
Agnes Hewitt 
Marion Isabella Hewitt 
Henry St. Clair Hewitt 
Alfred D. Hewitt 
Rosina Borland 
Emeline Harriman 
Julia Louise Smith 
Alice Cochran 
Frederick A. Marquand 
Israel Newton Terry 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Isabel Dunkin 
Mary A. Broome 
Hugh McGuire 
Anna H. Rogers 
Wm. J. Mclntyre 
Hattie A. Scribner 
William Wilson 
E. F. Lindeman 
Alexander Lang 

June 6, 1872. 

ADMITTED ON PROFBSSION 

Robert McCormac 
Joseph Rogers 



Arthur F. Hawes 
James Henry Leverich 
Charlotte Isabel Peck 
Rosa Scott 

Fanny Haselhurst Ryer 
Martha Laird 
James Mc Vicar 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Eliza McCormac 
Elizabeth M. McClellan 
Mary R. Hotchkin 
Kate Baker 
H. F. Jantson 
Eugenie Menut 
Wm. M. Reynolds, M.D. 
David J. Garth 
Susan C. Garth 
Anna Halsted Terbell 
Alex. M. Proudfit 
Maria M. Proudfit 

Oct. 10, 1872. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Wm. Strong Warner 
Laura Hamilton Paton 
Albert Van Winkle 
Charles Albert Wiley 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Henrietta L. Warner 
Richard J. Thompson 
Helen A. Soffe 
Wm. Libbey, Jr. 
Jonas M. Libbey 
C. E. Jones 
Agnes Sinclair 
Hans Meier 
Mary Howland 
Arthur Ritchie 
John J. Wilson 
Ann Taylor Wilson 
J. Varnum Mott, M. D. 
Thos. McBride 

Dec. 5, 1872. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Harold Morgan Smith 
Samuel Alexander 
Jeremiah Skidmore_ 
Christina Murray 
Edith Fairfax Smith 
Edward H. Miller 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Catherine Atkinson 
Ada Jaffray 
Florence Jaffray 



Lucie Parmly 
Kenneth Junor 
D. L. Mecluire 
Isabella Barr 
Phebe Ann Baker 
Julia Baker 
Jane Ruthven 
Jane A. Ruthven 
Edward A. Jones 
Maria E. Jones 
R. M. Reynolds 
Sarah L. Reynolds 
Joseph B. Morrison 

Feb. 4, 1873. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOW 

Clement R. Thomson 
Richard Irvin, Jr. 
William Barr 
Andrew W. Knox 
Susie P. Lilienthal 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Sarah A. Whitney 
John Herron 
Mrs. Herron 
Henry L. Smith 
Jane N. Smith 
Martha C. McNulty 
Edna Jennie Barger 
Caroline B. Wilson 
George D. Parmly 
Emily P. A. Woolsey 
John Cleve Henderson, Jr. 
Hiram W. Warner 
Charlotte M. Warner 
Harriet B. Bokee 
Thomas Kerr 

April 10, 1873. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOK 
Fannie A. Higgins 
James A. Maxwell 
Alfred W. Fisher 
Harriet McMartin 
Abby W. ]Merrill 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Sophronia Breckrenridge 

Margaret Hazel 

David Wilkins 

Mary F. Dexter 

J. E. Colton 

Mrs. Colton 

James A. Gerhard 

Eliza Clark 

Harriet R. Smedberg 

Samuel L. Mitchill 



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Henry D. Prince 
George Hamilton 
Fannie S. Hamilton 
Robert H. Wilkinson 

June 5, 1873. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Josie M. Whitlock 
Sylvene Miller 
Robert N. Bruce 
Isaac Glassey 
Mary Humphrey 
John A. Stewart, Jr. 
Emily Mclntyre 
Jeannette Prosser 
James Stewart 
Frederick A. lyibbey 
Thos. C. Hall 



Jeminia McCullough 
Jane McElroy 
Jennie Martin 
Mary Groengor 
Charlotte Welsh 
Pauline A. Disnoe 
Helen Jane Brown 
John Frasor 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Walter S. Pierce 



James Gumming Murray 
Kate Iv. Cook 
Ida Mclntyre 
ADMITTED BY CERTlSlCAT* 

James T. Ford 
William Leeper 
Robert Beggs 
Mary Ann Beggs 



Mary Frasor 
Elizabeth Moir 
Elizabeth H. Earle 

Feb. 5, 1874. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Cassie J. Hamilton 
Alice M. Paton 
Maggie Adair Bulkley 



Alfred Nichols 
Eliza Henry 
Ann Cummings 
Mary E. Cummings 
Eleanor K. Major 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE John Henry Benedict 



H. Doolittle 
L. C. Doolittle 
Joseph Doolittle 
Helen MacKensie 
F. W. Litten 
Edwin B. Miller 
Rebecca C. Miller 
Lizzie Henderson 

Oct. 10, 1873. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Isabella Andrews 



Anna Harriman 
Sarah Jane Kirk 
Harriet Gross 
Herman E. K. M. 



June II, 1874. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOK 

Mary Sheitlin 
Elvina Sheitlin 
Florence A. Cordis 
Nellie Russel Cordis 
Catherine Murray 
Schausxhomas Sloane 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Walter H. Sloane 
Alex. McGregir Crerar Walbridge Bulkley 

Elizabeth Irwin Hepsy H. Wilcox 

Alexander G. VanCleve 
Albert Remick 
Carrie A. Remick 



Feb. 26, 1874. 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Lanier Dunn 
Eliza Beggs 
Elizabeth Beggs 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Charles O. H. Smith 



John G. Mairs 
Samuel Laughlin 
Elizabeth A. Eaughlin 
Josephine Ross 
Sarah Hunt 
M. Stevenson 



Francina Umber 
Arthur Neill 
William Stewart 
Ann Sutton Oliver 
Elizabeth Ann Kerridge 



Maria 1,. G. Auchincloss 
Mary Ann Reckless 



Dec. II, 1873. 
ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Mathew Drysdale 
Isabella Crothers 



Oct. 8, 1874. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mary W. Steele 
ADMiTTED^BY CERTIFICATE Mary F. McKensie 
George G. Wheelock 



Sarah E. Dennis 



Emily C. Hall 
Katie C. Ryer 
E. Josephine Peck 
Annie Mack 
Mary A. Wheelock 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Alex. C. Stewart 
Ann McKenzie Bruce 
Edward Seymour 
Sarah J. Seymour 
Mugger Kreeconian 

Jan. 8, 1874. 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

April 9, 1874. Margaret Bussini 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION William Bluett 



Jeannette Ruthven 
Parker D. Handy 
Annie Everitt Swift 
Augusta H. Taintor 
Martha W. Prescott 
Sallie C. Mar 
James L. Harriman 
Henry Marquand 
Martha Y. Barnes 
Henry D. Bristol 
Eleanor Agnew 
ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Caroline E. Morgan 
Henrietta Parsons Daniel Murray 



Mary E. Pierce 

Dec. 10, 1874. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Carrie A. Boardman 
Thos. W. Gerard 
Margaret Gerard 
Charles J. Smock 
John E. Parmley 
John S. Wilde 
Sarah Richards 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Charles M. Taintor 



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Thomas"A. Nelson 
Annie K. Dodge 
Susan S. Francklyn 
James Swanzie 
Catherine A. Swanzie 
Frank L. Janeway 
Jennie B. Parmelee 
Sarah J. Struthers 
Charles Phipps 
Kate Lintz 

Feb. 10, 1875. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

William Johnston 
Jane Eliza McNealey 
Thomas L. Seymour 
Mary S. Gilmore 
James H. Belcher 
William Sloane 
Alice Hall 

Geo. DeForest L. Day 
Mary Jane Miller 
William Brinker 
Emma B. Todd 
Charles F. Abbot 
Alice E. Abbot 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
E. D. McDonald 
Adelina A. Harper 
Daniel C. Mclntyre 
Sarah Bunker 
Rachel Blair 
Mary H. Bruce 
Florence Bragg 
Q. A. Gilmore 
M. J. Westbury 
Warren C. Bevan 
Virginia B. Bevan 

April 8, 1875. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Ellen McElwrath 
Elizabeth W. Whitlock 
B. Morris Whitlock 
Fielding L. Marshall 
Charles F. Parmlee 
Edith Thomson 
Samuel Smith 
Susan Bull 
Harvey E. Fisk 
Sidney A. Smith 
Lucy N. Barnes 
James Black 
Mary N. Black 
Catherine Black 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Matilda Burton 



Mary Johnston 
Wainwright Bradley 
Mary A. Pope 
James Kingan 
John C. Angell 
James Davison 
Matilda Hunt 

Jtme 10, 1875. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Silliman Blagdon 
Mina Rudolph 
Jennie A. Tarleton 
(Helen D. Morris 
Thomas Humphries 
Willis VanWinkle 
Mary F. Garth 
Anna H. Wilde 
Paulina S. Pearsall 
Alexander Mills 
Mary A. Mills 
Cecelia Cabrow 
Annie Cleave 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

R. T. Wilson 
M. C. Wilson 
Charles P. Britton 
Caroline Britton 
Henry Campman 
Helen D. Campman 
John A. Livingstone 
Jane G. Livingstone 
Jane P. Livingstone 
Mary Craig 
Elliot F. Shepard 
Margaret S. V. Shepard 
Anna H. Bolton 
Peter Amerman 
Mary W. F. Amerman 
Sidney M. Stray 
E. C. Graham 
Louisa B. Graham 
Frederick H. Wolcott 
Alice Wolcott 
Edward F. Brown 
Eleanor R. Brown 
Silas B. Brownell 
Sarah S. Brownell 
Emily V. Sloane 
Anna E. Mortimer 
Wm. C. Dornin 
Mary J. Dornin 
Marion Strang 
Josephine A. VanVorst 



Dorothea Pfandor 
Sarah Lord 
George Lord 

Oct. 7, 1875. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

M. Honamieson Ahakhan 
Emma J. Bonner 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATK 

Catherine T. Thompson 
Mary T. Wescott 
Annie Montgomery 
Samuel Lemon 
Margaret Lemon 
Edward W. Coleman 
Catherine Coleman 
Wm. B. Taylor 
Gertrude B. Taylor 
John Inglis 
Wm. Inglis 
John R. Inglis 
Agnes Ingles 
Samuel Montgomery 
Eliza Montgomery 
Samuel J. Montgomery 
Loranie W. Montgomery 
Margaret Dunlop 
John Jennings 
Margaret J. Jennings 
Margaret J. McKilvey 
Annie E. McKilvey 
Frank W. Giffin 
Hugh Stokes 
V/illiam Lintz 
Maria Lintz 
John H. Inman 
Margaret C. Inman 
George Sanderson 
Sarah M. Sanderson 
Margaret Rollo 
Marion A. Rollo 
Maggie L. Rollo 
Nanette B. Beneded 
Ruth Glass 
Eliza J. Glass 
E. J. O'Brien 
Thomas Nelson 

Dec. 9, 1875- 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

James F. D. Lanier, Jr. 

George Prescott 

Mary Emily Donaldson 

Alice A. Post 

Sally R. Post 



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Wm. H. Maxwell, M.D. 
John D. Pultz 
Edith E. Jaffray 
Annie H. Bruce 
Josephine Mendham 
Anna K. Eraser 
Charles J. Fisk 
Alice G. Amerman 
Julia Sperry 
John Walker 



Henrietta White 
Cornelius Winant 
Sarah M. Winant 
Wm. H. Beadleston 
Susan A. Beadleston 
Catherine C. Giles 
Margaret Wallace 
Maria Darlington 

Peh. 10, 1876. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 



ADMITTED BY cerTiPicaTB Emma McNamara 



William Pfander 
Charles F. Cutter 
Edgar A. Eno3 
Helen A. Pultz 
Ann Neil 
John Alex. Scott 
lyizzie H. McBride 
C. E. Perkins 
Sarah E. Crawford 
John M. Simpson 
E. M. Stephenson 
Melanie B. Durfee 
Rosaline A. Smith 
Margaret J. White 
Isabella McCullagh 
Anna McCaulay 
Martha E. Piepers 
Mary Forsyth Wickes 
Edward A. Wickes 
Sarah W. Prescott 
David A. Hedges, M.D. 
E. W. Beardslee 
Anna E. Beach 
Caroline H. Johnson 
Catherine A. Taylor 
Elizabeth A. Irwin 
Lizzie Powell 
John W. Bowling, M.D. 
Frances E. Dowling 
John M. Harlow 
Sarah M. Harlow 
Frederick Bruce 
Charlotte A. Bruce 
Mary Annie Bruce 
Daniel M. Walbridge 
Mary E. Walbridge 
Anna Stuart 
Margaret Stuart 
John P. Duncan 
Susan W. Duncan 
David Duncan 
Ellen Duncan 
William White 
Margaret White 



Mary Ann McCracken 
Eliza Whitford 
Jacob W. Young 
John W. Auchincloss 
Margaret Graham 
Frederick S. Bragg 
Marietta Sanford 
Eliza Duke 
C. Stockton Halsted 
Sarah Ann Halsted 
Meredith Howland 
Henry A. Smedberg 
Edmond M. Smedberg 
Pliny Fisk 
Alexander G. Fisk 
Francis Thoman 
Elizabeth W. Coats 
Anna M. Coats 
Fanny Gerard 
Bessie Hyatt 
Ellen Wheeler 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS 

S. B. Merrill 
Bertha M. Kohlsaat 
Jennie R. Stevenson 
Catherine McKeown 
Agnes McKeown 
Peter McFadden 
Eliza Jane McFadden 
Phebe T. Magie 
Robert Stenhouse 
Mary Stenhouse 
C. C. Lancaster 
Adela B. Sloane 
Ellen Davis 
Samuel Kilpatrick 
Betty J. Kilpatrick 
Charles T. Raynolds 
Adelaide A. Raynolds 
Robert T. Meeks 
Sarah E. Meeks 
M. Burton 
J. McFarland 
Russell Raymond 



Helen Raymond 
George P. Slade 
Cornelia W. Slade 
Mary Anderson 
Sarah P. Cabus 
Bridget Burke 
Catherine Irvine 
Georgiana Irvine 
Martin S. McNamara 

April 6, 1876. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOH 

James T. Murray 
Mary A. B, Murray 
Jennie E. Thayer 
Albert W. Greene 
Catherine F. Campbell 
Leeming W. Campbell 
Thomas Harrington 
Henry A. Alexander 
Margaret I. Jennings 
Francis J. Paton 
Agnes M. CofRn 
Margaret Bruyn 
Amelia DePan Fowler 
Meta Oliver Fowler 
Aimee C. Toler 
E. Judson Hawley 
Leila B. Trowbridge 
Francis H. Markoe 
Alfred N. Beadleston 
Margaret McConnoU 
Eliza Q. Harrison 
John S. Cunningham 
John Herron, Jr. 
Robert E. Bonner 
S. Walter RoUo 
S. W. Beekman, Jr. 
Mary Thorpe 
Grace Mortimer 
Joseph T. Thompson 
Mary Monroe 
George Fait 
Sarah E. Adams 
John Forbes Warner 
Laura Agnew 

ADMITTED BY CERTIPICA« 

Adelia H. Brown 
Jane M. Coffin 
Mary M. Donaldson 
D. G. Watts 
R. H. Sloan, M.D. 
Jennie M. Sloan 
Edward S. Jaffray 
Anna F. Jaffray 



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Fanny H, Roorback 
Wm. King Hicks 
John A. Wilson 
Laura A. Peck 
William Wetmore 
Sophia J. Torrance 
Alexander Dongan 
Priscilla P. Sloane 
W. WhiteM'right Stuart 
Matilda D. Leverich 
Martha A. Colton 
Joseph E). lyord 
Cornelia A, Beekman 
Charles Meyer 
David Magie, M.D. 
Margaret S. Magie 
Ernst Lencke 

June 8, 1876. 

ADMITTED ON PROIfESSION 

Katie S. Keane 
Sophia Mencke 
Margaret T. Chapelle 
Harriet Godefroy 
Mary Miller 
Annie Miller 
Ada Knight 
Agnes Becket 
Isabella R. McCoon 
James Henry 
Eliza Henry 
Laura Miller 
Helen Miller 
Christiana Boiling 
Helen Gillespie 
Mary A. Morrison 
Walter J. Becket 
Edmond Roe 
Henry E. Davis 
Joseph Hoff 
Annie A. Tucker 
Helen P. Anderson 
Adelaide Howland 
Mary Carr Hardie 
Robert Chambers 
Joseph Whittemore 
Edward E. Terbell 
Elijean Terbell 
Mary G. McFarland 
Russell R, Brown 
William A. Johnston 
Charles W. Barnes 
Maggie P. French 
Sarah H. Bokee 
Emil Bang 



John B. Anderson 
George G. Lincoln 
Clarissa Giles 
Frank H. Piatt 
S. Gertrude Mortimer 



ADMITTED BY CERTIEICATS 

Edward G. Clarke 

Sarah Clelland 

Mary F. H. Shears 

Thos. J. C. Guy 

E. M. French 

Mary Brown 

David Q. Maclean 

James C. Knox 

Mary L. Knox 

Jane W. McKee 

Harriet Van Deventer 

Elizabeth Van Deventer H. A. Hart, M.D. 

Josephine Van D. Smith^ate Hart 



ADMITTED BY CERTlflCAT* 

Mary Jane Ormsby 
James Campbell 
Josephine E- Carpenter 
Arthur A. Barrows, 

M.D. 
Annie Carroll 
George E. Dodge 
M. Beadleston 
Wm. B. Cragin 
Louisa M. Howland 
Maria Louisa Brown 
Mary Elizabeth Ames 
George W. Thornton 
Lawrence D. Alexander 
Orline St. John 

Alexander 



Hattie B. Potter 
Charles H. Potter 
Matilda M. Potter 
Cora A. Bulkley 

Oct. 5, 1876. 



Mary Belle Nichols 
Abram A. Smith, M.D. 
Sue Smith 

Dec. 7, 1876. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 



ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Cornelia L. Martin(Mrs.) 
George S. McKibbin Cornelia L. Martin 



Jane Louisa Turner 
Mary Bunney 
Robert Parker Bliss 
Sarah Prescott 
Melvin C. Haskell 
Laura E. Prescott 



Margaret Ann Glass 
Feb. 8, 1877. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOK 

Elizabeth Bodle 
Isabella Bullman 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Anne Harrison 
Isabella Walker james Phillips 

Jannette M. Crichton ja^e Phillips 

Isabella Calvert Thos. A. Mclntyre 

Wm. St. George Elliot ^^ma Louisa Ames 
Annie R. Elliot Frederick C. Beach 

Elizabeth C. McKibbin JqIj^ R. Wilde 
Dec. 5, 1876. Stephen Wray 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ^'i^^'" Harriman, Jr. 
Elizabeth Lindsay Hampton Johnston 

Matilda Jane Lemon J^mes L- Perry, M.D. 
George C, Magoun 
Adelaide L. Magoun 
Lucy A. Johnson 
Mary Graham 
Cornelius Van W. 

Demarest 
Mary Tylor Moore 
Annie C. Moore 
Mary Douglass Graham 
Lizzie Laforge 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Dinah Armour 

Apr. 5. 1877. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Susan Russel Baker 
Lizzie Henry 
Lizzie R. Munro 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

George j\I. Baker 



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Dan'l E. Van 

Valkenburg 
Alida S. Van 

Valkenburg 
Anna Van Valkenburg 
Edelbert Jeanrenaud 
John H. Weber 
Catherine E. Smock 
Jennings J. McComb 
Mary H. McComb 
D. Eveline F. Hascall 
Mary N. Perkins 
Malcolm Graham 
Samuel L,. Stiver 
Elizabeth H. Merchant 
James Hasley 
Arthur T. Muzzy 
Wm. J. Gibson 
Wm. H. Dornin 
Phebe G. Dornin 
Sarah F. Gardner 
J. O. Averill 
Edwin F. Hatfield, Jr. 
Henry C, Meyer 
Charlotte E. Meyer 
Frances ly. Baker 
Horace Maxwell 
Cornelia S. M. Moore 
Rensen Schenck 
Minnie T. Sclienck 
Anna Henderson 
Amelia Wade 

Apr. 8, 1877. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

William Howgill 
Wm. Walcott Knight 
John C. Rosch 
Martha Rosch 
Madeline Finck 
Sabina Wtitzel 
Sophia Brown 
David White 
Charles McGrath 
Pamela Stratton 
Alexander Thompson 
Mary E. Murray 
Lizzie S. Haines 
Anna M. Smith 
John S. Howell 
Helen S. Mitchell 
Augusta Pierce 
Emma Durant 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Francis Forbes 
Amelia H. Armstrong 



Jennie Hey wood 
H. R. Palmer 
Mary Jane Hall 
Elizabeth S. Corne 
Amelia McDonald 
Jacob Campbell 
Margaret F. Campbell 
Wilson S. Scott 
Thomas H. Stout 
Sarah C. Stout 
Grace M. Whittemore 
Sarah A. Garth 
Margaret L,. Mead 
R. Douglass Grant 
May 31, 1877. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Eliza Bullman 

Andrew Sime 

Rachel Brown 

Jane Birrell 

Joseph Cabus 

Sarah Cabus 

Henry Winant 

J. L,everett Moore 

Asahel Raymond 

John Alex. Blackwood 

John Knox Burton 

Anna M. Stanley 

Thos. H. Skinner, M.D. 

Robert J. Sharpe 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Rose Brown 
James Alcohrn 
Margaret Alcohrn 
Martha Dillon 
Samuel R. Adams 
Theresa Adams 
James Brown 
E. S. Butler 
John H. Tallman 
Anna V. Tallman 
Gertrude Skinner 
Anna F. Schenck 
Mary M. Schenck 
Wm. Walton Schenck 
Mary E. Cook 
Josephine Stanley 
Maria Frame 
Katherine Karr 
Thomas V. Powell 
Henry Barbels 
Christina Barbels 

Oct. II, 1877. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Robert W. McCracken 



Martha Sutten 
Icanna A. Hengstenberg- 
Alexander Trimble 
William Sepp 
Emma Sepp 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Eliza A. Livingston 
Mary Campbell 
C. L. Campbell 
Eva A. Schoonmaker 
Matthev/ Frame 
Ann Frame 
John M. Amweg, Jr. 
Dora Barbels 
Martha Manwaring 
William Leys 
Jennie M. Leys 
James A. Frame 
J. B. Galloway 
Emma F. Richmond 
Charlotte A. Marshall 

Dec. 5, 1877. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Elizabeth M. Thomson 
Louisa Beebe 
William C. Clopton 
Corinne Roosevelt 
John D. Locke 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATB 

Joel D. Hunter 
Mary F. Hunter 
Fanny H. Hunter 
David M. Hunter 
Waltor L. Hunter 
Susan E. Davis 
Abbie Jennie Wilds 
Lillian Minnie Wilds 
Josephine D. Taylor 
Herbert Charles Taylor 
Russell H. Hoadley 
Alice H. Hoadley 
James B. Gemmill 
Andrew Wright 
Cornelia B. Strong 
Kate R. Wright 
Kate H. Meigs 

Feb. 7, 187S. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Agnes J. Murray 
Annie Donaldson 
Henry A. Fagnani 
S. Kitty Owen 
Maud Howland 
Mabel Marquand 



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Elizabeth L. Marguand 
Frances L. VanVechten 
Marie L,ouise Case 
Mary Alice McComb 
Louisa Hengstenberg 
Robert Walter, Jr. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATB 

Minnie E. Thompson 
Annie H. Thompson 
Isabella Hoff 
Caroline G. Hoflf 
Edward D. Bettins 
Stenhouse Bong 
Sarah E. Jewett 
Charlotte A. Armour 
Henry Ivison 
Harriet Ivison 
James A. Parsons 
Kate J. Parsons 
Maria L,. Luqueer 
Amelia Mott Luqueer 
Simeon Phillips 
Mrs. Phillips 
Ellen L. Hopkins 
Albert Phillips 



May 9, 1878. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Annie M. McCron 
Magdelin Gray 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

John McCron 

May 30, 1878. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mary Forbes 
Mary A. Forbes 
Lucretia Buck 
Augustine L. Smith 
Annie Thompson 
Edwin Mclntyre, Jr. 
Robert Watson Spear 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Archibald A. Bill 
Henry C. Stimson 
Julia A. Stimson 
Julia J. Stimson 
Mary A. Stimson 
Catherine Stimson Wes- 
ton 
Fanny Mclntyre 
W. E. Emery 
Elizabeth Emery 
Mary Borland 
Maggie Borland 
Charles Kellogg 
Ellen P. Kellogg 
Elias Mollison 
Jennie M. P. Stuart 



April II, 1878. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Louisa M. Berger 

Amandus Berger 

Cornelia H. Scharfenberg 

Susan Spring Paton 

George Douglass Young 

Mary Alice Townsend q^.^^ jq j-g^g 

Edith Mitchell ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Joseph McC. Leiper ^n^^ Dewherst 

Marie Louisa VanVorst Elizabeth T. Thompson 
Wm. G. Conklin Chichester Brown 

Elvira B. Bonney John Thomas Buckwell 

John Strain -^^^^ Carson 

Allen VanValkenberg Matilda Drysdale 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Bertha Donaldson 
George H. Sibley Thomas Donaldson 

Margaretta W. Campbell William Davidson 



Martha M. Creagh 
Samuel H. Van Cleve 
Edward H. Tobey 
Bessie H. Tobey 
Anna M. Hawley 
M. A. Monahan 
Lizzie Loran 
Nancy Struble 
Xantha Bartlett 
R. E. Morrell 



Sarah Ebbits 
Lucy Evans 
Sarah Godefroy 
Aimee Rose Godefroy 
Jenny Geonon 
Annie Gleave 
Adolph Gubner 
Alexander Henry 
Annie Keene 
Harriet King 



Anne Laville 
William Moir 
O. Ho F. Mittag 
Joanna Mittag 
Elizabeth Moore 
Louis Meader 
Sarah J. Mugge 
Rosa Newcomb 
Margaret Phillips 
Adam Roeder 
Abigail Seaman 
Almoria Seaman 
Eliza Thompson 
Rebecca S. White 
Charles L. Weithaupt 
Banryena Strack 
Frederica Strack 
Lizzie Marshall 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Robert Mitchell 
Mary A. Mitchell 
Clara P. Brown 
Kersey S. Blake 
Allan Sterling 
Maggie A. Sterling 
Caroline Dewherst 
Adelaide J. Alcott 
Catherine M. Jones 
C. P. L. Butler, Jr. 
Wm. Lawson 
L. M. Davenport 
John Davidson 
Mary C. Davidson 

Nov. 6, 1878. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Harriet Stoll 
Elizabeth Decker 
Sarah Jane McGill 
Mary Ann Dougan 
Sarah Jane Wilson 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mary Stevenright 
Sarah Cook 
John B. Morrison 

Dec. 5, 1878. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Susan DeForest Day 
Agnes C. Moen 
Lena T. Crawford 
Jennie M. Havemeyer 
Margaret Hollenback 
James R. Jesup, Jr. 
Annie T. Morgan 



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Louisa E- Japy 
Henry D. Anderson 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATB 

Edward A. Moen 
Mary C. Moen 
Isabella Thompson 
Margaret McCarrol 
Robert P. McBride 
Eliza E. Ivindor 
Caroline M. Robinson 
Thomas A. Patterson 
Mary Jones 
Lizzie R. Jones 
Robert Davie 
Walter D. Buchanan 
Jane D. Buchanan 
Thomas Kerr 
Mrs. Kerr 

Feb. 9, 1879. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mahlon D. Stamback 
John L T. Luqueer 
Thomas E. Turner 
Herbert B. Smith 
Annie J. Duncan 
Laura L. Cochrane 
Annie C. A. Smith 
S. Barton French 
Zelie Matti 
Mary E. Haines 
Martha Eager 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

James C. Sheldon 
Jane M. Sheldon 
Jeannie Sheldon 
Emmeline B. Webb 
Rebecca M. Biggam 
Eliza Cinnamon 
F. D. Winston 
W. McDowell Halsey 
Wm. Donaldson 
Thomas B, Stewart 
Marietta C. Stewart 
Elizabeth M. Stewart 
Perez M. Stewart 
Candace I. Sheperd 
E. Gwynne 
James F. Brodie 
B. Howard Bent 
H. H. Henry 
J. L. Adams 
Helen D. Adams 
J. L. Adams, Jr. 
K. Smith Blake 



April 10, 1879. 

ADMITTED ON PROEESSION 

James Trimble 
Martha Trimble 
Margaret T. Donaldson 
Maggie Stratton 
Cornelia M. Cunningham 
Marie Louise Campman 
Marie Scott Boyd 
Jane O. Thompson 
Cordelia Burt Abbey 
Z. Parish Wheeler 
Eliza Ann Campbell 
Wm. Van S. Thorne 
Nellie J. Paton 
Mary M. Knecht 
Kate L. Evans 
Joanna Evans 
Hannah S. Dillon 
Cora D. Wyckoff 
Katie E. Inglis 
Adam Bruce 
Damaso Mazaret 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mary Ann Thompson 
Margaret Shafer 
Sarah A. Boyd 
Julia C. Clark 
Julia G. Clark 
Samuel Thorne 
Edwin Thorne 
Margaret B. Thorne 
John A. Scribner 
C. Matilda Strang 
Henry M. Schiefflin 
Sarah M. Schiefflin 
Fanny K. Schiefflin 
Mary B. Schiefflin 
J. H. Howard 
Mary Howard 
Wm. H. Katzenback 
Julia E. Katzenback 
Edwin Langdon 
Thomas Barclay 
Eliza Barclay 

May 9, 1879. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Elizabeth Gowdie 

May 29, 1879. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Albertina Niedling 
Catherine Blackwood 
Anna H. Kohlsatt 
Maggie A. Burton 



Jennie McKee 
Margaret L. Miller 
Louis L. Jackson 
Mary L. Chedeayne 
Caroline D. Chedeayne 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Langdon C. Easton 
Elizabeth M. Easton 
Joseph J. Easton 
Langdon C. Easton, Jr. 
Anna L. Stevenson 
Henry B. Barnes 
Elizabeth D. Barnes 
Eugene L. Mapes 

Oct. 9, 1879. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOK 

John Hutton 
Enoch Dutcher 
Agnes Cochrane 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Cora V. Hutton 
Fanny O. Dutcher 
Wm. V. Brokaw 
Elizabeth Brokaw 
George Munro 
Catherine F, Munro 
Nicholas Gwynne 
James Irvine Beatty 
Mary P. Adam 
Maria L. Adam 
W. G. Boal 
Edward Gardner 
Frederick I. Stimson 
John W. Stimson 

Nov. 6, 1879. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOIT 

Isabella C. Simpson 
Thos. C. Donaldson 

Dec. II, 1879. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION" 

Julia B. Tod 
J. Borden Harriman 
Elizabeth M. Ford 
Fanny A. LaForge 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATB 

Richard Brown 
Robert Bruce 
Ann Bruce 
Francis H. Leggett 
Flora Remington 
John Borland Franklin 
John K. Tod 
James Eckerson 



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John E. Kckerson 
Sarah C. Eckerson 
Maria E. Eckerson 
Anna L. Reynolds 
Lucy B, Jaudon 
Daniel B. Hatch 
Mary E. Hatch 
Clara B. Hatch 

Peh. 5, iS8o. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Sarah Blauvelt 
Lizzie Roder 
Robert W. DeForest 
George A. Weber 
John C. Weber 
Charles B. Coffin 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Sophia McCready 
Helen Kilpatrick 
Frank E. Stewart 
Caroline B. Alexander 
Emily J. DeForest 
Sarah C. Neal 
Joseph Thomson 
Jane L. Thomson 
Catherine Colquhoon 

April 8, i88o. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

George S. Bartlett 
Maitland Alexander 
Bessie T. Agnew 
Jessie Reynolds 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Joseph Labaree 
Amelia D. Sheffield 
Annie Murray 
Wm. B. Jaudon 
Kate K. Jaudon 
Ivucy A. Jaudon 
A. Cameron 
Elizabeth Cameron 
Robert L. Boyd 
James Rankine 

May 6, i88o. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Julia Kenne 
Mary Brown 
Mamie Nicoll 

June 3, i88o. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Constance Anerswild 



Lydia L. Sanford 
Carrie E. Livingston 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Samuel White 
James Talcott 
Henrietta E. Talcott 
Arthur L- Hay 
Selma E. L. VanDeurs 
Henry M. VanDeurs 
Micco VanDeurs 
Eva H. VanDeurs 
Martha H. VanDeurs 
Minna Pfeiffer 

Oct. 7, i88o. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Isabel Landreth 
Emily McCall Sheldon 
Wm. H. Wallace 
Louisa Hoff 
Sarah Pearson 
Charles Kinne 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS 

Edmond Mosher 
Mary Mosher 
Casper Baker 
Emily Dayton 
Abraham H. Dayton 
Frederick W. Dayton 
Mary Alicia Dayton 
Emily Louisa Dayton 

Dec. 9, i88o. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Fanny J. Young 
Alice H. Roosevelt 
Mary Baldwin Hyde 
Jonathan Sturges 
James D. Eakin 
Lilly Pirie 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Nathaniel Gordon, Jr. 
John Porter 
Lizzie Bell 
Mary T. Lord 
Mrs. Richard 
E. H. Amerman 
Emmeline Esdaile 
E. A. Stebbins 
Harry G. Hoff 
Frederika B. Beales 
Mary A. Watts 
C. Amelia Huntoon 



Jan. 6, j88i. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOK 
Laura Fisher 
Margaret Doyle 
Robert McGregor 
Annie Glasken 
Elizabeth Dillon 
William Ferris 
William Cook 
Ule Jensen 
Eliza Jenson 
Catherine Voltz 
Clara M. Standerman 
Annie Becker 
Magdalene Bietch 
Mary Heffe 
Isabella McHenry 
Catherine Fentulent 
Dora Troshurtz 
John Ahem 
Ellen Ahem 
Helmina Sherm 
Henry White 
Mary Ann White 
Frederica Schmidt 
August Berger 
Carrie R. Berger 
Lovtise Tepp 
Catherine Koeler 
Catherine Dietrick 
Mary F. Dietrick 
Margaret Metzler 
Annie Mack 
Louise Schmidt 
Daniel Bietch 
Mary Peterkin 
Henry Drussa 
Henry Hammel 
Theresa Hammel 
Matilda Betcher 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Kate Elizabeth Watson 
Feb. 10, i88i. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Rosina Fry 
Paul Stecker 
Johanna Stecker 
John Arnold 
Margaret Arnold 
Louisa Bauer 
Dorothea Batzimaum 
Dorothea Sierichs 
Margaret Zeiber 
Alice Zeiber 



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Margaret Koberich 
Margaret Metzler 
Alexander Peterkin 
Henry J. Wendlekin 
Elizabeth McAlister 
Stewart Paton 
Eliza Brown Lord 
Alice Jeannette Bliss 
David J. Jackson 
Grace Green 

ADMITTED BY CERTIi'ICATE 

Agnes McNab 
Jeannette M, Wheelock 
Joseph A. Wheelock 
James Thomas 
Mrs. Thomas 
Catherine S. Gilmer 
Sarah A. Gilmer 
Martha M. Gilmer 
David J. Garth 
Susan C. Garth 
Albert M. Bigelow 
Robert J. Carlisle 
Wm. E. Dodge 
Frank Ferguson 
Alexander Pirie 
Ann Moore 
Catherine McAlister 
Martha McAlister 
Abbie Wagenhals 

March 10, 1881. 

ADMITTED ON PROE«SSION 

William Hodgins 
Maria F. Hodgins 
Mary Diehl 
Dora C. Ash 
Jane Hoey 
Julia Yeager 
Francezi Roberts 
Elizabeth McKee 
James Davis 
Catherine Davis 
Wm. Edwin Davis 
Martha W. Burton 
Mary Rice 
Louisa Euler 
Caroline Helbert 
Ann Brown 
Charlotte Douglas 
Mary Ann Douglas 
Catherine A. Clark 
Mary Oakley 
Alfred Ranagan 
Elizabeth Birrell 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Eliza Barnaby 
Catherine Stoddard 
Mary E. McKinney 
Robert McKee 
James Anderson 
Rachel B- Anderson 
Holmes Conk 
Margaret Burns 

April 7, j88i. 

ADMITTED ON PR0EES9I0N 

James H. Salmon 
Robert C. Mann 
Bessie Alexander 
Augustus R. Moen 
Horace S. Ely 
Amelia D. Gorman 
Fanny R. McComb 
Adelaide C. Dickinson 
Frederick B. Ames 
Francis P. Magoun 
Mary Alice Smith 
Wm. J. Wallace 
Mary Steen 
Kate E. Macy 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Morton V. Brokaw 
Fanny R. G. Ely 
Cornelia H. Coffin 
Clemina H. Hamilton 
Martha J. Sterling 
June 2, 188 X. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Henry Wagner 
lyouise Wagner 
Sophia lyoveday 
Ogaretha E. Goddard 
Loucia O. Benedict 
Robert Wilson 
Mary J. Laville 
Julia A. Campbell 
Anna May Shafer 
Mary Teodoroike 
Ellen Scott 
Jennie Scott 
Elizabeth Fellgraph 
Eliza McCusdy 
Catherine Mangold 
Mary Stephen Rennee 
Margaret M. Roberts 
Clara Campmann 
Otis W. Randall 
Mary Pettigrew 
Margaret McElroy 
Benjamin Parr 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Jane Ray 
Joseph Eoveday 
Eydia H. Dunn 
Walter h. McCorkle 
Elizabeth Pringle 
Harriet A, Eee 
Ellie R. P. C. Randall 
Theodore D. Bradford 
Margaret D. Leverich 
J. Seymour Scott 

Oct. I, 1881. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Louisa Green 
Charlotte E. Brown 
Lizzie C. Sodtzer 
Edward Y. Weber 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Andrew Reid 
Sidney E. Sinclair 
Mary Jane Maitland 

Nov. 10, 1881. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Thomas N. Morrison 
James K. Scott 
Andrew Newhall 
Augustus Phlager 
Margarette Rubsamon 
James Sebaugh 
Christina Koberich 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Isabella McCron 
Robert Baxter 
Mrs. Baxter 

Dec. 8, 1881. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

John Lorimer Graham 
Florence Carleton 
Nannie Gordon French 
Louis Hallock Schultz 
Ward Beecker Rowland 
Frederick D. Winant 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Laura Schultz 
Rebecca McCarroU 
Juliet McCarroll 
Agnes L- Thompson 
Annie H. Vermilye 

Jan. 5, 1882. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOM 

Martha Kennedy 
Emma Geary 
Herman Hahn 



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Emma Hahn 
John Mangold 
R. F. Adams 
Ellen S. Adams 
F. W. Gueist 
Caroline Mirkall 
Sophy Harbeck 
Maria L,. Boppart 
Eliza VonAesh 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
John T. McCann 
Teresa McCann 

Feb. 9, 1882. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Fanny i,. Miller 
John Jay Barger 
George B. French 
Bernard Tucker 
Wilhilmina M. Tucker 
Augusta Guerin 
Minnie Spingler 
William SoUperon 
Emma Joyce 
William H. Moeller 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

L^wis A. Hyde 
Annie Carson Bruce 
Cordie G. Hammell 
E. C. Gaffield 
Margaret Gaffield 
Annan Sterling 
Mary A. Sterling 
Alice Sterling 
Emma Bishop 
Henrietta Baker 
Eleanor L,. Blakeman 
Henry Hammell 
Theresa Hammell 
Daniel Winter 
Hannah Winter 
Sarah Ann Winter 

March 9, 1882. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Margaret Meyer 
Mary Gately 
John Cain 
Frederick Green 
Robert Donaldson 
Edward D. Farrell 
Frederick Burkhardt 
Hanna Burkhardt 
Leonard Zencada 
George Faulkner 



Lizzie Faulkner 
Margaret Raven 
Lawrence Heer 
Addie Heer 
Barbora Baxter 
Charles B. St. Clair 
Philip Schefer 
Augusta Surhoff 
Frederick Surhoff 
Louisa Rubsamen 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Eliza S. Berkeley 
Robert Duncan 
Elizabeth Duncan 
Wm. A. McKinny 
Eliza J. Wiley 
Sarah Maclay 

April 6, 1882. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Helen C. Reed 
Charles E. Cloud 
Sophy D. Young 
Sarah E. Donaldson 
Sophia L. White 
James E. Matheson 
Rudolph G. Berger 
Eliza Howden 
Ellen Jane Frazier 
William S. Inglis 
Edward D. Smith 
Mary J. Smith 
Corinna Smith 
Sarah O. Agnev/ 
Peter Townsend 
Kinsley Magoun 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Charles B. Jaudon 
Hannah C. Thompson 
Christy Ann Campbell 
Mary D. Van Winkle 
George P. Hinckey 
Eliza J. Hinckey 
Paul Hinckey 
Mary Hinckey 
William A. Copp 
Emily M. Copp 
Mary Ann B. Sterling 
Jennie T. Bellups 

May II, 1882. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Thomas Guest 
Alice S. Guest 
Louisa Harbeck 
Katie Harbeck 



Julia Howgill 
Annie McElath 
Emma Evans 
Margaret Laidlaw 
Catherine Waldman 
Annie Wildey 
Lena Reinhard 
Anne Miller 
Augusta Breul 
Theresa Greische 
Eliza Rothe 
Ida Rothe 
Philip F. Schefer 
Jennie Pritchard 
Louise A. Stock 
Elizabeth Gueoin 
Charlotte Muhlberger 
Wilhelmina Sollheim 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Nancy Orr 
Ellen Bell 
John King 
Ann King 

June I, 1882. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION" 

Helen D. Winant 
Agnes Carpenter 
Elzy Burkham 
Robert J. Hunter 
Genevieve P. Robbins 
John H. Giffen, Jr. 
Maggie L. Giffen 
Horace E. Garth 
Lena Garth 
Jeannie McMahan 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
John M. McMahan 
Mary J. McElroy 
Cyrus F. Woods 
Josephine K. Woods 
Henrietta C. Tubble 
Alice D. Garth 
Edward A. Jones 
William S. Lines 
Jenny Lines 
Mabel Lines 
Mrs. Barger 

Oct. 5, 1882. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

William E. Stevenson 
Florence McKee 
Amelia Lambeart 
George IMerchol 
Lewis Randolph Smith 



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ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Edgar M. Smith J. Mackensie Eadie 

Alice H. Gory Arthur Irving Taylor Mary K. McLauchlin 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ^"^^""^_'^* ^Z ^^^^shall 

Kate Murchison 
Jeannie E. Murchison 
Frank W. Taft 
Mary Abigail Mellick 



1882. 

PROEESSION 



Dec. 7, 

ADMITTED ON 

William M. Cowan 
Anna M. Cowan 
Maggie Worthington 
Lena W. Hilbert 
Rachel Goodwin 
Hannah Thoman 
Eliza Pierce 
Jane Pritchard 
Maria Anderson 
Thos. Herbert Williams 
Anton VonSpengler 
Catherine Schmidt 
Minnie Hilser 
Charles Sollheim 
Catherine Gruen 
William Beyer 
William Scullion 
Margaret J. Scullion 
Isabella Wilson 
Hattie A. Robinson 
Seth B. Robinson 
Lizzie B. Zshock 
Elizabeth G. Munn 
Annie M. Pultz 
Jennie K. Eraser 
I. Q. A. Gilmore 
Mary L,. Walker 
Catherine E. Walker 
Stephen O. Todd 
Edith P. Stratton 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Wariah I. Davenport 
William Cochran 
Margaret I. Cochran 
John McDonald 
Mary H. Bogles 
Kate Koontz 
Kitty O. K. Smith 
Alfred L,. Edwards 
Arabella S. Edwards 
Anna May Palmer 
Katy Haff 
William Stevens 
Robert Dobson 



March 8, 1883. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Lillie Kennedy 
Margaret Dickinson 
Mary Jane Campbell 
Emma E. Scott 
John Schefer 
Alfred Nelson 
Grace Nelson 
Maggie I. Andrews 
William Granger 
Catherine D. Robinson 
Julia Crawford 
Audrey T. Crawford 
Jessie A. Sloane 
Isaac A. Edmonds 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

John Brown 
Lizzie Brown 
Adolphus N. Tucker 
Elizabeth McColl 
Mary Nicol 
Mary Riley 
Emily Lauderbach 
Ettie Lauderbach 
George M. Grant 
Ella W. Grant 

May 31, 1883. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Elizabeth Anderson 
Margaret Worthington 
Susie Day 
Mary Teodovski 
Maxamillian Teodovski 
Henry Raven 
Minnie Burton 
Ella B. A. Tucker 
Josephine A. Thomson 
Nancy McHravy 
Margaret Berrian 
Luola Alurchison 
Frank M. Hurlbut 
Albert E. Seibert 
Kate Morgan Brookfield 



Charles Hamilton 
Rachel A. Hamilton 
George Oliver 
Sarah J. Olicer 
Nettie Smith 
John H. Magowan 



Feb. 8, 1883. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Gertrude B. Tefft 

Maggie Mclntyre 

Louis Smith admitted by CERTIFICATE Katy Day 

Edwin Augustus Richard James Eadie Archibald Bishop 



Oct. II, 1883. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Lizetta Maria Bahr 
Ida Berger 
Annette Berger 
Sarah L. Meeks 
James Hall 
Josephine Treat 
Mary Valentine 
Martha H. Meyers 
Edwin H. Burgess 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Edward A. Treat 
Alice Paterson 
Augusta A. Thomas 
Charles M. Jesup 
Catherine Jesup 
Charles S. Campbell 

Nov. 8, 1883. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Richard Blauvelt 
Margaret Blauvelt 
Frances R. Hamilton 
Louisa Guyer 
Mary Rose 

Dec. 6, 1883. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Albert Bechtold 

Sarah Jane Griffin 

August Leiler 

Flora Leiler 

Bernard Joseph Tucker 

Jane White 

Mary Elizabeth White 

John White 

Jane Elizabeth Smith 

Letitia Young 

Eliza Jane McKinty 

Elizabeth Mank 

Christina Stroud 

Robert G. Stroud 

Thomas A. Campbell 



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Elias Burton Hart, Jr. 
Charles I. Hart 
Henry W. Hetlierington 
Susie L. Duncan 
Louise I,. Fraker 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Julia E. Cragin 
Rebecca Ladew 
Elisha R. Wheelock 
Frankie M. Wheelock 
Nathan Henry Sabin 
Mrs. Sabin 
George B. Sterling 
Annie Smith 
E. Burton Hart 
Harriet A. Hart 
Lee Canfield Hart 
Henry H. Benedict 
Maria Benedict 
John McFeeters 
James McFeeters 
George Hunter Brown 
Rachel B. Brown 
James Brown 
Maria Murray Brown 
George Hunter Brown, Jr. 
Danl. Wheeler Brown 
Margaret M. Hotchkiss 
Sarah H. Porter 
Cornelia B. Hotchkiss 
Myra R. Hotchkiss 
H. ly. Ladew 
J. H. Udew 

Jan. 10, 1884. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Samuel Flannigan 
Charles Cretty 

Jan. 22, 1884. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mary McGronan 
Pauline Gravenich 
Sarah Lang 
George H. Devine 
Margaret Schuhmacker 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Edwin F. Stanley 
Feh. 6, 1884. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Annie C. Rinner 
John Hogg 
Jeanet Hogg 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Jane Anderson 



William Main 
Annie Main 
Stephen K. Crowell 
Mary A. Crowell 
David Burns 
Mrs. Burns 
Daniel S. Rerasen 



April JO, 1884. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOW 

Eliza Schmalz 
Ivanna Hoefele 
Matilda Marx 
Henrietta Maurer 
William Martin 



Louise Townsend RemsonLauncelot Sleigh 
Joseph F. Freibley 
Feb. 7, 1884. Lilliam Gwynne 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Henry A. Wisewood 



Mary J. Andresen 
H. Caroline Andresen 
Robert S. Morris, M.D. 
Jane A. Moorhead 
Barbora F. Munro 
Richard M. Laimbeor 
Douglas Ewell 
Carrie Ewell 
David D. Schenck 
Katherine Kaltinbeck 
Edith W. Carpenter 
Gertrude H. Abbey 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mary M. Stewart 
Louisa Darche 
Francis H. Amidon 
Ann Amidon 
Marian B. Arms 
Maria Chalmers 
Kate Chalmers 
Mary Snively 
Edward Lapsley 
William L. Miller 
Olivia M. Brice 

March 8, 1884. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Maggie Margaret 
Donaldson 
Maggie Irons 
Alexander Roy 
Kate Roy 
Matilda Barton 
Margaret Cartwright 
Sarah Rafferty 
Barbara Glimmenschmidt 



Edith Agnew 
Catherine Nash Agnew 
Louisa H. Southv.-ick 
Agnes C. Inglis 
Grace L. Houghton 
Louisa Sheffield Brownell 
Henry Ivison Parsons 
Francis Edgar Talcott 
Arthur Whiting Talcott 
Nathan W. Horton 
Effie Penniman 
Jessie P. Andresen 
Eudora Symington 
William H. Frame 
Edward C. Moen 
Charles Counon 
Mary B. Glenn 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Sarah C. Sloane 
William Smith 
John Smith 

J. Gardner Hammer, Jr. 
Anna B. McClelland 
Nannie M. Grinnell 
Frank Cazenove Jones 
Emily MuUhoIland 



May 8, 1884. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Maggie Wilson 
Katherine E. Woolley 
Lottie Berkeley 
James Donaldson 
Carrie Burchart 
Arthur Pierce 
Thomas Reid 
William Patterson 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Henry Cleavy 
Robert Young John Stephenson 

Peter Bruce Maria C. Stephenson 

James Bruce Martha McClellan 

Mary Craig Bella LeMount 

Jane M. Craig Bella S. Pine 

Ann Smith Samuel McCartney 



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Robert Brown 
Annie Brown 
James Miller 
Anna Kinley 
Lizzie Wright 
Jennie Hunter 
John Parker Cassidy 

May 29, 1884. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Maria Jane Schafer 
Caroline INIahl 
Emma L. lyeistner 
Sarah L. Jather 
Anna Weir 
Lizzie Muhlberger 
Louisa Bechtoldt 
Anna Benhard 
William Seiwert 
Maria Louisa Shepard 
Mary Adelaide Ulman 
Helen Warren Ulman 
Ida Baldwin Carleton 
Fielding Gwynn 
Sarah A. Symington 



Adeline S. Martin 
Charles C. McCarty 
S. H. Russell 
Guido Bossard 
Emily Charles 
C. J. Hanson 
Frank Hall Wright 
Annie S. Barrett 

Nov. 6, 1884. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Minnie D. Bunker 
Katie Roese 
Catherine M. Lyman 
Lizzie Miller 
Fdith S. H. Hahn 
Mary Dixon Karr 
Jane Mclven 
Edward Gumbart 
Robert Hunter 
Jane Ann Calhoon 
Sadie Wilson Fallgroff 
Emily P. Hoepner 
Maggie Miller 
James Ackerson 



Evelyn Susan Thompson Theresa Trossi 



Agnes Helen Davis 

Charles F. Frothingham 

Mary M. Frothingham 

John W. Dowling, Jr. 

George B. Dowling 

George A. Dixon, M.D. 

George Bliss Agnew 

Cornelius R. Agnew, Jr. 

Harriet A. Eckerson 

Grace E. Bliss 

David C. McBride 

Dec. II, 1884. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 



Eliza McCartney 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
John Greeve 
James Haughey 
Maria Haughey 
Eliza Haughey 
Violet Haughey 
Mary Dick 
Mary L. Renner 



John K. Moore 
Elizabeth Moore 
Anna Duncan 
Thomas Davidson 
Maggie E. Doig 
Julia C. Fowler 
Jennie P. Brown 
Anna Knox Mclntyre 
P. McCombie 
Harriet F. Kelley 
Elizabeth Hopkins 



Joanna Rechlin 
Thomas Martin 
Sarah Ann Irwin 
Henry Lewis Stimson 
Candace C. Stimson 
Wesley Fisk Smith 
Caroline L. Gorman 
John G. Hurmuze 
Edith Sinclair 
Ernest H. Lines 
Ada Gwynne 



Sarah P. Dixon 

James Reynolds 

Mrs. Reynolds 

S. M. Blakeley 

Samuel M. Woodbridge 

Elizabeth B. Woodbridge 

E. A. Perkins 

Sarah Hall 

S. Edwina Brown 

Robert K. Wick 

Ivan P. Balabanoff 

Charles Davy 

Samuel Semmes 

Jane Renan 

Jan. 8, 1885. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Pauline Departi 
Margaret A. Reid 
Mary Hammell 
George McCartney 
George Waldman 
William Birrell 
Annie A. Powell 
Alice Salt 
Lena Muhlberger 
Kate Bechtoldt 

Peh. 5, 1885. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Augusta C. Winkhaus 
Harold W. Armstrong 
Bessie Symington 
Janet B. Campbell 
Emma J. Frame 
A. H. Lipsett 
Henrietta M. L. Kimber 
Maria B. Kimber 
Louisa VanRensselaer 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Gustave Burkle 
Maggie Campbell 
Percy L. Klock 
Joanna R. Auchincloss 
Titus K. Smith 
Mrs. Vanghan 
James R. Hatmaker 
Anna A. Brace 
Franklin W. Carlisle 
Dorothea E. Lundahl 



Oct. g, 1884. ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE March 12, 1885. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Frances Mary Chapin admitted on profesSIOM 

Arthur Evans Dornin Charlotte Judson Blake Margaret Gray 
Sarah Cecil Henrietta Blake Emilie Hand 

Mary Campbell Frances Blake Annie Shaw Ackerson 



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Katie E. Ackerson 
William Meigh 
Matilda Meigh 
James Karr 
Minnie Gumbart 
Robert Boyd 
Etta Barton 
Fanny Monds 
Ellen Cameron 
Jane Wright 
Katie Ellis 
Margaret Barton 
John McKenzie Scott 

April 9, 1885. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mary A. Bottsford 
Rhoda A. Brannigan 
Adelaide Makin 
Kate Bortfeldt 
Howard C. PhilKps, Jr. 
Andrew J. Garvey 
Isabella Garvey 
George T. Slade 
Henry V. D. Black 
Howard W. Charles 
Mabel VanRensselaer 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Eliza Westervelt 
H. M. Alford 
Constant A. Andrews 
Mrs. Andrews 
Andrew McCosh, M.D. 
Hartune S. Jenanyan 
Agnes Mason 
Catherine McColl 
Christina McColl 

May 7, 18S5. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

David Henry Miller 
Mary A. Murray 
Alta Myra Jost 
Lizzie Cunningham 
Lizzie Merkell 
John Aird 
P. J. Bolton 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mary S. Rannie 
Peter Gait 
Eliza Gait 
Lena Weber 

June 4, i88}y. 

ADMITTED ON PROEESSION 
Mary Akin 



Wilhelmina Busse 
Elizabeth Frische 
Josephine Fallei 
Ellen J. McHenry 
Margaret A. Lene 
Cora Cutter 
Jennie Logan Dills 
Adele DeBourgeois 

Chapin 
Sarah D. Raymond 
William A. Britton 
Sidney Dillon 
William D. Stewart 
John H. Franklin 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Garret F. Wortendyke 
Emily F. Wortendyke 
Isaac Adviance 
Thomas Newell 
Teresa C. Webster 
D. R. Rodgers 
Elizabeth VanZellor 

Oct. 8, 1885. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Wittie C. Johnson 
Alexander Cunningham 
Annie Birrell 
Meta F. Labaree 
Sarah Frances Hall 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

I. C. Martin 
J. E. Ducle 
John L. Penman 
Mary DeWitt Cuyler 
Cornelius C. Cuyler 
Eleanor D. G. Cuyler 
John L. Fruauf 
Justine D. Fruauf 

Nov. 5. J885. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Thomas H. Gray 
Susan Gray 

John Henry W. Giesche 
Jeanet Stewart Aird 
Annie Argo Gibson 
Prudence Amxwell 
Alexander Stewart 
Elizabeth Stewart 
William Pierson 
Augusta Pierson 
Margaret Reincke 
Julia Loelbrich 
Mary E. Steinbacker 
Susie Martin 



ADMITTED BY CERTIPICAT* 

John McLean 
E. McLean 
William B. Smith 
Robert Stewart 
Robert Graham 
Susan Graham 

Dec. 10, 1885. 

ADMITTED ON PROFesSlOK 

Eliza Whinton 
Katie G. Bang 
Adele Weber 
John P. Sheridan 
Elizabeth W. Duncan 
Mary Wilson 
Mary Faller Sturges 
Louis H. Blakeman 
Alice Brown Lee 
Marion Lee 
Joel Wolfe Thome 
Samuel Thorne 
Emma Pauline Wilde 
George C. Burgeois 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Alfred Von der Muhll 
Anna Von der Muhll 
Corinne Flint 
William Dulles, Jr. 
Alice E. R. Carrington 
Sarah W. Mott 
W. A. Tucker 
Addie Tucker 
Jacob Fruauf 
Emilie Fruauf 
George J. Fruauf 
Charlotte S. Fruauf 
Philip W. Fruauf 
William E. Wheelock 
Henry E. Rowland 
Ella L. Rowland 
Sarah T. Fuller 
Dwight B. Hunt, INI. D. 
Fanny H. Hunt 
Mary L- Francis 

Jan. 7, 1886. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOK 

Mary Seltzer 
Mary Lyon 
Mary Buckhardt 
Maggie Humphrey 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS 

Edward E. Williams 
Jenny McComb Greer 
Mary O'Brien 
Emma Humphrey 



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Feb. II, 1886. Margaret Morrison Caroline Muller 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION David Morrison, Jr. Mary Kurz 

James McClurg Janet E. Hutchison Marian G. Bradford 

Gertrude Tod Harry B. Guyton 

Fanny R. Perkins ^'^^ ^' ^^^^' Robert M. Beggs 

r. Tir Tj * ADMITTED ON PROEBSSION tt , r\ t, ■ 

George M. Paton K t B t ' Helen O. Brice 

Effie M. Andresen , , tt William M. McGaw 

Poultney Bigelow ^^'^ Hassinger ^.^^.^^ ^_ ^^^^ 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE "^""^ 3, 1886. Helen W. Bulkley 

Hester Crispell admitted on profession Margaret A. Inglis 

John M. Bopp ^^^^^ Richard Alice T. Crawford 

Margaret H. Bopp Caroline D, Morrison Emily V. Sloane 

Louisa L. Williams ^^^^y Smedberg Alice V. Shepard 

Susannah W. Hibbard ^^^^^ ^- Fi-^^ch John H. VanVorst 

Sarah E. Tucker Samuel S. Skinner Clarence A. Cameron 

John D. Locke ^' -^^^^^ Beggs admitted bv certificate 

Eugene Stieger Stuart Duncan Charles Rutherford 

Mary J. Powell Susan E. Hall Harry B. Tolles 

Emma J. Powell Alice Sylvie Fowler Mary D, Carbee 
Anna N. Powell admitted by certificate ^' ^' ^ritton 

Flora R. Brown Jardine Wallace R- Dickinson Jewctt 

Gertrude Brown Mary Davidson ^^ise S. Jewett 

Anna R. Brown Agnes P. Brown Nydie Dockey 

Agnes M. Brown Jennie P. Black 

March n, 1886. Charles G. Barrett 

admitted on profession Oct. 7, 1886. Ann L. Barrett 

Frances Green admitted on profession Mary J. Skidmore 

Gustie Rose Lizzie Graham ^gnes Robertson 

Katie Merkell Mary McKinley Adolph Obrig 

Mary Mane Annie Hassinger Clara Obrig 

^ .. „ „„, Hans Johnston 

April 8, 1886. Louisa Kinney Jan. 6. 1887. 

admitted ON profession j^^^^.j^^ ^_ Brownell admitted on profession 

Elizabeth P. Brookes Augustus Luttman Florence Mollan 

May Armour Donald M. Shearer 
Florence Adele Sloane admitted by certificate ^ ghearer 

Henriette Lyonette Sarah Clelland ^^^.^^.^^ ^^^ ^^^.^ 

Edith Shepard ^izzie McLean Margaret Speck 

Bertha A. Pupke Josephine Wheeler 

EmilieF S Pupke Charles W. Meloney admitted by certificate 

Annie P.' Walker Antionette B. Taylor Eliza A. Glenn 

Jessie L. Murchison L B. Adger Mullally ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^_ 

Mary D. Campman Nov. 11, 1886. admitted on' profession 

Josephine M. Cook - admitted on profession Charles Schultze 

Henry K. Pryor Alexander Donaldson Catherine B. Moeller 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE William James Frost Charlotte Weiss 

Wiley I. Canfield William Haughey Minnie L. Weber 

Jennie S. Cruikshank Edward Bottenus Emma T. Weber 
Agnes Whiting admitted by certificate ^^"^^ ^- Sheridan 

Alexander Cameron Edward McMullan Emma Gallup 

Jennie Cameron Mary McMullan Mary Metzler 

Jessie M. Cameron Samuel Graham Pauline M. Heieleman 

Mary A. Smith Bertha Piepenburg 

Annie C. M. Hillsnan Dec. 9, 1886. Martha Wenz 

David Morrison admitted on profession Sarah E. Armstrong 

Elizabeth J. Morrison John Muller Hana G. Armstrong 



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Annie E. Katzenbach 
William C. Dornin, Jr. 
Harriet V. Crocker 
Alexes B. Garretson 
Maud Irving 
James A. Macaulay 
Thomas R. A. Hall 
Henry T. Hotchkiss 
Maria J. Gulbraudsen 

ADMITTED BY CERTIflCATB 

Eliza A. Blake 
Harriet C. Blake 
Annie Blake 
Sarah Hall 
Harvey E. Fisk 
Mary L- Fisk 
Jane A. Havens 
Susan M. Havens 
Clarence L,. Irewisjr. 

March 10. 1887. 

ADMITTED ON PROEESSION 

Mary Anderson 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Thomas Scott 

April 7. 1887. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

William McCullough 
Clara Eisprish 
James L. Washburn 
Alfred C. Cameron 
George E. Grover 
Sarah M. Mitchell 
Eleanor O. Brownell 
Elizabeth W. Barnes 
Henry B. Barnes, Jr. 
Ivillian A. Hall 
Wm. B. Lauderback 
Douglass Knox 
Mary D. Knox 
Jane McClelland 
Frederick B. Fainton 
Maltus I. NeM'man 
Jacob M. Newman 
W. S. Lauderback 
Josephine Hall 
Albert W. Lilienthall 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Sarah Reid 
S. E. McCombie 
Oliver Prentice 
E. H. Sniffer 
Maggie Ingram 



May 4, 1887. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

George A. Duncan 
James Clelland 
Henry Clelland 
Ann McFeat 
Annie Webb 
Alexander McFadden 
Catherine McFadden 
Hugh McCutchin 
Nellie Graham 
Emilie Rosch 
Susan Flanigan 
Iv. D. Robertson 
Emma Holmes 
Katie Burnside 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS 

Eliza Black 

June 2, 1887. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Julius J. Herriman 
Mary Thomson 
Russel H. Stebbins 
Samuel S. Stebbins 
Florence R. Carey 
Emily A. Wilson 
May Mclntyre 
Malcolm Graham, Jr. 
William A. Richmond 
Lydia Hutchinson 
Lizzie McMullan 
Mary J. McMullan 
Margaret C. Kurz 
Mamie E. Reineke 
Thomas Hudson 
Lillian Lees 
Mary Proudfit Irvin 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Mary J. Graham 
Alice S. Stebbins 
Elizabeth W. Simmons 
Sarah Hudson 
Jeanette II. Judd 
Mrs. Samuel AlcClure 



Edna Barger 
Reuben Ross 
Henry C. Meyer, Jr. 
Robert Irwin 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Emile Stepli 
Josephine W. Miller 
Samuel Goeise 
Samuel Milliken, Jr. 
Hattie F. Milliken 
Edward F. Milliken 
Foster Milliken 
Carie F. Milliken 
Hannah E. Dixon 
Dorothea E. Lundahl 
Oliver P. Lewis 

Jan. 5, 1888. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION" 

Lizzie Yost 

Feb. g, 1888. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Elizabeth C. LeBourgeois 
Samuel M. Blakely 
Caroline Emanuel 
William Sloane 
Alexander A. Richmond 
John D. Ormsby 
Edgar S. Auchincloss, Jr. 
Lilly Whinton 
Daniel McFadden 
Christian Shue 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mary L. Morris 
Susanna Potter 
Tilariana M. Lynke 
Mary McKinnon 
Lizzie Shields 
Lizzie Madill 
Emma Ormsby 
Eliza Montgomery 
Frank E. Hoskins 
Nathaniel M. Bennett 
Malcolm C. Thompson 
McL. P. Stevenson 



Nov. 10, 1887. March 8, 1888. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

David Cunningham Michael Mantel 

Edward Charles Lane Wm. Cunningham 

Dec. 8, 1887. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Anna Maria Stehli admitted on profession 

Anne S. Agnew Maggie McNab 

Maud Anna Barger Robert McNab 



Mamie Andrews 

April 5, 18S8. 



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Frances Rice 
Chu Hum 

Minnie P. C. Meyer 
Elizabeth O. Brower 
Isabella E. Leech 
William A. Campbell 
Ida C. Alcott 
Mary B. Green 
Nellie Mclntyre 
Samuel S. Auchincloss 
William R. Wright 
Martha M. Hall 
Agnes H. Hall 
Archibald D. Davis 
Mary E. Davis 
David H. Taylor 
Camille T. G. Hientze 
Alexander McNichol 
Frances Steele 

ADMITTED BY CEBTIPICATE 

William H. Law 
Anna C. Lee 
Irvin M. Landis 
Isaac Sluth 
Laura Ellinwood 
Mary G. Ellinwood 
Laura H. Ellinwood 
Carrie H. Lines 

May 31. 1888. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

James Notton 
Emma Notton 
Sarah Louisa Notton 
William Notton 
Mary Jane Perpenbring 
Eliza I. Ott 
Louis Salzman 
William Stewart McNab 
Matilda Stephenson 
Jennie G. E. Andresen 
Elizabeth Hawxhurst 

Crawford 
Emma J. Foster 
John Stuart White 
Annie Smith Carey 
Grace Brett Carey 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Gustavus Gutbub 
Joseph Corbit 
Ellen Corbit 
Choo Took 
Harriet C. Robinson 
Mary L. Robinson 
Amanda M. Skinner 



Oct. I J, 1888. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Frank Lavery 
Augusta Wintermeyer 
Mamie Fintolet 
Elizabeth Byle 
Francis Loveday 
Edward Reid 
John Herndon French 
Sarah Ann Spies 
Cochrane 
Horace Porter, Jr. 
Jennie F. Inman 
Willie Lee Inman 
Margaret Grace Inman 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Robert Fisher 
Mrs. Fisher 
Wesley F. Smith 
Nettie Smith 
Marion Murray Cash 
Agnes Black 
Mrs. Martin 
William Henry Stuart 
James McAdoo Wilson 
Frances Christie 

McCormack 
Isabella McCormack 
Annie Shaw Frazer 
Janie Anstell Swann 

Nov. 7, 1888. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Anne Morrison 
Lena Gardner 
Carrie Murphy 
Mary M. Duncan 
Margaret Richmond 
Maggie Thoman 
George W. Wylie 
Bertha Bachtold 
Ida I. Burton 
Sarah Burnie 
Maggie McLean 
Washington I. Moore 
Emma L. Moore 
William I. McKenzie 

Shearer 
Annie Smith 
Mary Mettal 
Nettie Handt 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
W. J. Green 
Hannah Jane McComb 
Green 



Lewis Ross 
Isabella Ross 
Elizabeth O'Neill 
Hilah Cronk 
Fred John Cage 
Lizzie Cage 
William Morrison 

Dec. 6, 1888. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSXOK 

Emily Page 
Eloise Stevenson 
Matilda Ormsby 
Clara Richmond 

Brandford 
Samuel Morris Pentland 
Henry M. Andresen 
Mary A. Doherty 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Jane Jackson 
R. McBratney 
Howard Payson Wilds 
Judson Boardman Wilds 
James Muir 
Margaret Farmer Muir 
Isabella Ross Muir 
Margaret I. Muir 
M. McGinniss 
Halda L. Labaree 
Maria Moreland 
Agnes Robertson 

Feb. 7, 1889. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Ida Guerin 
Katie Loez 
James Morrison 
James Clark 
Mamie Irons 
Lizzie Roebeck 
Charles Roebeck 
William MacGregor 
Margaret Ann Irwin 
Jung Look 
Henry C. Adams 
Letitia Laughlan 
Annie Doscher 
Louis Gross Smith 
Johnston DeForest 
Thomas H. Burton 
Maria Morrison 

ADMITTED BY CERTIMCATE 

Alexander Weir 
Mary Weir 
Maria Haughey 



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Eliza Haughey 
Violet Hughes 
Maggie Haughey 
James E. Haughey 
John Brown 
Elizabeth Brown 
Mary Rice 
Wilhelmina Buttle 
Robert Hillis 
John Miller 
Mary E. Corbit 
Margaret Gair 
Sophia Gilmour 
Bella Watson 
James H. Schmelzel 
Annie Louise Schmelzel 
Mary Norman 



Mary McGay 
Oliver G. Prescott 
I. C. Marshall 
Isabella Gardiner 
Nancy Irwin 
Hariman Slingerland 
Annie Margareth Vietor 



May 15, i88g. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Ivizzie Walgner 
Louise Burkardt 
Agnes L. Ramppen 
Florence Spoule 
P. William Gatt 
Louise Pfluger 
Katie Euler 
Gussie Giesche 
Martha Burton 
Dors Zander 
Dors Roebeck 
Clara Failes 
Lizzie Mebin 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ^^^-^ McCartney 



March 8, 1889. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Peter Euler 
Mary Chatterton 



Mrs. Bell 
Joseph Dunbar 
Peter Grant 



April II, 1889. 



M. F. Pfluger 

May so, 1889. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Henry S. Thompson 



ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Frank Joseph Bristol 



Rose Merkall 
Arthur Scholl 
August Gahrmann 
Minnie Gahrmann 
Mamie Aitken 
Augusta Reineke 
George F. Vietor 
Emma C. VanBoskerck 
Isabella Graham Marbury 
Elizabeth A. Eraser 
Emily Madill 
William H. Brown 
Marie Louise Mott 
Margaret Elliott 
Arthur Herbert Bliss 
Magdalena Heintze 
James Green Carson 

West Montgomery CarsonMiss Susannah Preston 
Lizzie Evelyn Beggs i^ges 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS Miss Mabel Hedges 
Edward Munro 
Bridget Munro 



Archer Coit Sinclair 
Miss Lulu Woodville 

Cragin 
Mrs. Rosa Hellen Koster 
Miss Meta Rosa Koster 
Miss Lillie Forecamp 
Minnie Cochrane 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Lottie Williams 
Miss Sarah I. Walsh 
Miss Sarah McPhail 
Miss Emma C. Jenkins 
John Thomas Trimble 
Christina McKenzie 

Oct. 10, 1889. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 



Catherine McDonald 
Chu Jim 
D. Milton Fish 
James McGay 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mrs. Sarah A. Ackerman 
James Turner Ackerman 
Allen Barr 

Miss Laura Withington 
Darid H. Irwin 



Warner VanNorden 

Mrs. Martha P. 

VanNorden 

Miss Emma P. Van- 
Norden 

Warner VanNorden, Jr. 

Theodore L. VanNorden 

Miss Margaret Currie 

Miss Maggie Cooper 

Joseph Baillie 

Mrs. Agnes Galway 

Mrs. Maria Donnelly 

Nov. 7, 1889. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Lena Smith 
Miss Magdelen Freyer 
Miss Elsie Schorm 

Dec. 5, 1889. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Margaret Jane Lynn 

Benjamin W. B. Brown 

Chu Ahr Chew 

James Anderson Hawes 

Mary Eliza Irwin 

Miss Alice Warner Work 

Miss Sallie Duncan Work 

Miss Mabel W. Work 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Thomas Gwin 
Granville Ryan Smith 
Mrs. Annie Dickinson 

Smith 
Mrs. Ellen C. McLain 
Miss May C. McLain 
Charles I. McLain 
Ralph McLain 
James Cunningham 
Mrs. Nicoll 
George Irvine 
Mrs. Annie Hopper 
John A. Brown 

Feb. 6, 1890. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Thomas Kerr 
John Morgan 
Thomas Grey 
Albert S. Flannigan 
Miss Ollie H. 

LaChappelle 
Miss Augusta E. 

Mandelton 
Miss Mary E. Bailey 
Mrs. Katie Loos 
Mrs. Mary Stevert 



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Miss Louisa Lechte 

Mrs. Bertha L,onicke Mrs. Mary Townson 
Frederick Thor Sheldon 

Louis Siebert Colin Livingstone 
Mrs. Catherine Hanische Miss Mary Ann Devany 

Mrs. Amanda Geisel James Cunningham 

Mrs. Mary M. John C. Martin 

Featherstone Mrs. Emily D. Martin 

Mis9 Dora Cecilia Mrs. Annie C. Spencer 

Sievert 
Miss Catherine Mercer 



Daniel Henry Rohrabaughjohn Newbold 

Mrs. Sarah Newbold 
Frederick Notton 
Mrs. Annie Rice 
Charles Magnus 



ADMITTED BY Ct'B.TltlCAti 

Mrs. Catherine Brookz 
Miss Catherine Clara 
Brookz 
May 22, 1890. ^^^^s ^^^''^ ^- Douglas 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION J^'^^ Heron 
Walter Dunn ^^^' Marietta P. Smith 

Mrs. Martha Mana Dunn 
Miss lyillie Adams 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE William Gardinier 
Mrs. Sarah C. Andrews 



Glassy 
Miss Helen Ells Homans 
Neill MacNeill 



Nov. 6, i8go. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Joanna Benge 
^,. -D1 T, TT o Miss Elizabeth L GiUespiechauncey Chadwick 

Miss Blanche E. Roscoe j;niott F. Shepardjr. Mrs. Elizabeth Chadwick 

Jesse P. Whiton Mjgg i^u^y Green 

Dr. Edwin R. Chadbourne Miss Annie Rosch 
James A. VanWagenen Miss Katie Rosch 
Miss Alice Maud Taintor admitted by certificate 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Samuel Fisher 
Augustus W. Pfluger 
Mrs. Ada Rothe Pfluger 
Daniel William Trimble 
Mrs. Sarah M. B. 

Conkling 
Mrs. Delia M. Conkling 
March 6, 1890. Moller 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION D. Paul Borleigh 
George Riley Conkling 

William Bierman Miss Natalie Burleigh 

Conkling 
Miss Edith Wylde 



H. A. Underwood 
Dr. Samuel Alexander 
Samuel B. Schieffelin 
Mrs. Eucretia Hazard 

Schieffelin 
Miss Jessie Asher 
Mrs. Josephine Buroonz 
Miss Marjorie Ellinwood' 
Miss Jeannie Ellinwood 
Miss Lucy Ellinwood 
Mrs. Almira D. Sherwood 



April 10, 1890. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Miss Louise Delaplaine 

Rowland 
Winthrop Bliss 
Miss Cora Louise 

VanNorden 
William Wirt Phillips 
Miss Ethel Copp 
James McLain 
Miss Marion Pierce 

Champlin 
Miss Ettie Amelia Jordan Miss Lizzie Kramer 
Mrs. Anna Louise Albert Guerin 

Livingstone Thomas Reineke 

Mrs. Estelle Chamberlain j^^^^ Miller 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE John HollingS 

Mrs. Mary G. Janeway Charles M. Grevning 



Oct. g, 1890. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Charles Graham 
Miss Lizzie Waldman 
Miss Susie Gardner 
Miss Ella Meyer 
Miss Martha Henning 
Mrs. Sophia Sievert 
Miss Minnie Gutbub 
Miss Francis Forecamp 



Mrs. Jane Wilkie 
Miss Annie Wilkie 
Herman Warzawiak 
Miss Maggie McCreery 



Mrs. Mary Breitfield 
Mrs. Catharine Henser 
Charles Kramer 
Adam McMullen 



Dec. II, 1890. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Gesine Heidrick 
Miss Lizzie Phillips 
Miss Carrie Bietsch 
Mrs. Mary Graham 
Miss Clara Schade 
John Gilliland 
Addison Atwater 
Mrs. Amelia Atwater 
Ferdinanda de Chiara 
Miss Elizabeth D. Young 
Phillips Smalley 
James Alexander Beggs 
William John Hall Beggs 
Mrs. Gertrude P. 

Gemmell 
F. C. H. Wendell 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Miss Lucinda F. McKee 
Miss Florence H. Gilmor 
Miss Addie M. 

Chadbourne 
Edwin J. Gillies 
Miss Florence A. Gillies 
James F. Hunt 
Miss Annie M. Galbraith 

M.D. 
Mrs. E. I. Bacon 

Jan. 8, 1891. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Miss Elizabeth Koff 



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Miss Emma Burkhardt 
Bruno Schmidt 
Otto Strewe 
Harold Brooks 
Alexander Aitken 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Miss Florence Mollan 
Feb. 5, 1891. 

ADMITTED ON PROEESSION 

James B. Wilson 
Henry Lockwood 

DeForest 
Henry Sloane Coffin 
Edward Russel Thomas 
lyawrence Thornton 

Bliss 
Miss Mary L,owry 

Moorhead 
Henry Berry Britton 
E. Delafield Smith 
Murray Brown 
Miss Sophia Johnston 
Mrs. Carrie Richards 

Wright 
Miss Carrie Bell 

Ainsworth 
Louisa Bretsch 
Martha Kerchner 
Mrs. Hannah Stassing 
Miss Martha Stassing 
Mrs. Mary Zempleman 
John Zempleman 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mrs. Sophea Rhea 

Dulles 
Elizabeth Anderson 
Miss Maggie Thoman 
Miss Matilda 

Wegerbacher 
Wilbur C. Fisk 
Alexander G. Fisk 
Mrs. Louisa Fisk 
Miss Mary Louisa Fisk 

April 10, 189 1. 
Miss Ida Maria Frame 
Miss Florence Robena 

Frame 
Miss Priscilla Dixon 

Barnes 
Mrs. Edith Williams 

Dowling 
Chu Een Chow 
Forsyth Wickes 



Miss Catherine Andrews 

C. Dodge 
Miss Mary Emiliana 

Schiessler 
Joseph Hay 
Walter Kirkpatrick 

Bryce 
Miss I. Bell Duncan 
Richard Hall Burton 
Albert Adett 
Louis Bruckle 
Katie Flanigan 
Alma Lundstrong 
Minnie McCann 
Julia Rosch 
Francis Harbeck 
Bernard Golde 
George Kurtz 
Mrs. Clara Grass 
John Seibert 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Willard C. Reid 
Miss Isabella Hall 
Miss Armavenie W. 

Ishkanian 
Dr. James B. Woods 
George Georgeson 
Miss Christina Campbell 

May 2y, 1891. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Anna Costello 

Ropes 
Mrs. Emily Wendel 
Mrs. Maria Curtiss 
Frederick Sturges, Jr. 
Edward Payson Beach 
Chu Bell 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Alexander Daletty 
Dr. Peter B. Wyckoff 
Mrs. Sarah Beach 
John Burnside 
Miss Mary Graham 

Oct. 3, 189 1. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

William Henry Vogel 
John Werner 
Mary Werner 
Miss Dors Tucker 
George Grimm 
John Weinsdofifer 
Mrs. Therese Johannaa 
Miss Kate Herman 



Miss Ada Muller 
Jeannette D. Mason 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS 

Mrs. Addison H. Deane 
Mrs. Annie Trimble 
Miss Caroline Kopf 
Miss Mamie Kopf 
Miss Jennie Birrell 
Hugh McKinnon 
Robert Eraser 
Catharine A. Eraser 
J. Aspinwall Hodge, Jr. 
Genevieve Karr Hodge 
William Guthrie 

Dec. 10, 1891. 
Miss Louise Isabel Fisk 
Miss Bertha Fisk 
Miss Evelyn Louise Fisk 
Miss Catharine Gardiner 
Leon Ling Jong 
Miss Edith Earle 
David Magie, Jr. 
Robert Dun Westcote 
Charles F. Sanborn 
Miss Katherine Thomp- 
son Westcote 
Miss Mary Robbins 
Miss Margaret Smith 
Miss Catherine Sanford 

Agnew 
Miss Ida A. Gahrman 
Miss Nellie King 
Miss Johanna Kirdiner 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Miss Bessie MacKenzie 
Mrs. Isabella Ray 
Miss Jane Lindsay 
Miss Helen Broadfoot 
Miss Margaretta R. 

Anthony 
Richard A. Anthony 
Cornelia B. Newcombe 

Baulmier 
George R. Fiske 
Louisa M. Fiske 
Dr. George Woolsey 
Mrs. Clara N. Earle 
Isaac Piatt 
Edmund M. Morris 
Hugh Getty 
Martha Jane Getty 
Mrs. Emma Brown 
John C. Graham 



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Mrs. Graham 
Frank Graham 
Muss Maria Potter 
Miss Catharine Bates 

Feb. II, 1892. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Miss Helen Isabella 

Munro 
Miss Kmily L. Janeway 
Miss Louise Bank 
George Alfred Schastey, 

Jr. 
Hugh Martin Inman 
Emory Hawes 
John Vosburgh Irwin 
Miss Ethel de Forest 
William Hawkhurst 

Wheelock 
Miss Lydia Anne 

Thorne 
Chu Hoy 
Robert Glassey 
Miss Emily Leslie 

Charles 
Paul Albert Seyerle 
Albert Seyerle 
Jacob J. Schuttinger 
William B. 

Schmidtkiencey 
Emil Arnold 
Charles P. Faller 
Henry William 

McMullen 
Robi Roefs 
Henry Stein 
Miss Susie Schott 
Herman Geo. Bahr 
Hugh R. MacMullen 
Henry W. Miller 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Robert Pettigrew 
William V. Martin 
Mrs. Anna MacBratney 
Euphemia Anderson 

Vose Hawes 
William Thorne 
Annie Thompson 
Warren A. Mayon 
Miss Susan Potter 
Mrs. Barbora F. 

Schureman 

Apr. 7, 1892. 

ADMITTED OI-I PROFESSION 

Julius Gahrman 



Miss Annie L. Vaubel 
Miss Katie A. Bullser 
Miss Emma Eisberg 
Miss Katie Eisberg 
Miss Susan Alexander 

McCook 
Miss Anna Von der 

Muhll 
James Wright 
James Leishman 
Miss Florence Dillon 

Wyckoff 
Miss Katharine Homans 
Miss Frances Elsie 

Hemans 
Miss Elizabeth Ellen 

Auchincloss 
Hugh Auchincloss 
Mrs. Margery 

Kernaghan 
Henry Rowland 



Miss Mary Margaret 

Disch 
John Burns 
Annie Burns 
Miss Henriette 

Borchardt 
J. Franklin Burdett 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
William Disch 
Mary Elizabeth Disch 
George W. Disch 

Oct. 6, 1892. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Wm. H. Hayden Miller, 

Jr. 
Mrs. Mary Eva Baur 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
R. L. Maynard 

Dec. 8, 1892. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 



James Graham Parsons Richard Wilson 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ^rs. Carrie Wilson 



J. Harry Hall 
Maxwell P. Johnstone 
Lillie Johnstone 
Charles Kernaghan 
Edward G. Cone 
Sarah W. Cone 
Miss M. Caroline Cone 
Miss Lizzie M. Cone 
Mrs. Annie Fary 
Mrs. Kate Gilderson 
Mrs. Frances E. 

Homans 
Miss Annie Brown 

May 22, 1892. 



William Ribiero 
Mrs. Anna Ribiero 
Mrs. Carrie Wagner 
John Taylor 
Miss Susan C. Beach 
Mrs. Catharine 

Wynsoffer 
William Madtis 
Miss Mary Agnes Clink 
Charles Wayne Wenz 
Miss Lulu Vanderbilt 

Sloane 
Miss Marguerite 

Shepard 
Charles L. Jones 
ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Miss Evelyn Sloane 
Robert Robertson Miss Grace Talcott 

Wolcott Phelps Robbins admitted by certificate 
Thomas Carby Webster Mrs. Augusta Clarisse 
Miss Bertha Baur Winkhaus 

Miss Martha A. Dawley Robert B. Mcllvain 
John Scott Boyle Miss Jennie Gilmore 

ADMITTED BY certificate ^'■^- ^^^^ ^- J^"^^ 

A. Donald Robertson John C. Angell 
Chu Son Yon ^^ss Armon Harman 

E. Francis Hyde Noah C. Rogers 

Martha E. Hyde ^^^- Annie S. Rogers 

Mrs. Fannie C. Burnham^iss Catharine H. 
McGregor 
June, 1892. Donald Cameron 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Mrs. Anna M. Harkness 
William Disch, Jr. Miss Florence Harkness 



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Frederick A. Brush 
Franklin M. Parlett 

Feb. 9, 1893. 



Chu Lung 
Chu Seng 

Miss Frances Russell 
Taintor 



Mrs. 



Annie Warner 
Handy 



ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ,,. y , tt^i^^ r^+4- , 

■Kf 'c^^^ 1? TVT Wm. John Folan Uetty 

Miss Ella F. M. 



Wiegland 
Miss Ida Boffinger 
William L. F. Mickley 
James Hazen Hyde 
Miss Edith Charlotte 

Talcott 
Henry Arthur Kimber 
Norman Peck 
Arthur Nelson Peck 
Raymond Boyd Thomson 
Miss Janetta Alexander 



William McGoun 
Charles Prentice 

Kellogg 
Edwards Pierrepont 

Rowlana 
Wm. Patrich Orm.sby 
Miss Lizzie Augusta 

Thayer 
John Andrews 
William Osterlee 
Henry Fagan 
Miss Christine Zeller 



McCook 

Miss Jean Sharon Work admitted by CERTIFICATE 
Miss Harriet Wilmot ^^s. Jane Wiley 

Leverich Mrs. Em.ilie Pritchard 

James H. Campbell 
ADMITTED Bv CERTIFICATE j^^^^^ Harriet McGoun 
Mrs. Catherine Stephen 
Mickley 



Theodor F. Lozier 
Miss Mary McCallion 
John H. Person 
Alexander J. Bruen 
Mrs. Laura A. Ball 

Pinkus 
Miss Margaret A. 

Sinclair 
Miss Sophie C. Morris 
Joseph Moorhead 
John M. Moorhead 
John L Moorhead 
Samuel Hutchinson 
Mrs. Margaret 

McClean 
Mrs. Mary F. Roberts 

■Mt- n/r c r. t, 4. ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Miss Mary S. Roberts ,, a • /^ 
iir-ii- TT -n 1 Mrs. Annie Larr 



Alonzo E. Austin, Jr. 
Mrs. Frances L. 

Taintor 
Mrs. Caroline M. Smith 
Miss Mary A. Smith 
Hopeton D. Smith 
Holmes S. Smith 
Joseph S. Bosworth 
Mrs. Lizzie C. Sypher 
Mrs. Frances M. H. 

Paton 

May 25, 1893. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Charles Crook 

Auchincloss 
Miss Ellen M. Jansen 



William H. Roberts 



Mrs. Mary Mahon 
Fred. Townsend 



Dec, 1892. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION James S. Cookcy 
Miss Mamie Lyman Miss Mary Mcllvain 



Feb. 19, 1893. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Miss Tempie E. Phillips 
Cornelius Bournes 
Gustave Berge 
James Graham 



Oct. 5, 1893- 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Emma Kunz 
Frederick Zittel 
Mrs. Katie Zittel 
Miss Alice Looz 
Apr. 6, 1893. Henry C. F. Bruhl 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION James M. Wilson 
Miss Sarah Coffin Miss Annie I\L Adams 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Daniel E. Kimball 
Mrs. M. A. McComb 
James Brandon 
Alexander Frazer 
Mrs. Esther Frazer 
John Michie 

Nov. 10, 1893. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Miss Lillie F. Rettig 
Miss Fernand DeSavis 
Miss Minnie Granger 

Dec. 7, 1893. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

John Karl 

Miss Emma E. Brahl 

Miss Dora M. Salzmann 

William Wilson 

Mrs. Mary A. 

Rosenhammer 
Miss Amy Lee Duncan 
Amidon Thompson 
Norman Sloane Bliss 
August Stein 
Miss Annie Duttweiler 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Robert Alex. Bailey 
Frederick J. Looz 
George Murray 
jMiss Agnes Miller 
Edward S. Harkness 
Miss Jane Thompson 
Miss Mary Jane Stuart 
Malcolm Stuart 
Cornelia Evelyn 

Paulmier 
Miss Charlotte Hamilton 
Miss Jane Gordon 
Miss Manah Irwin 
John I, Sinclair 
Mrs. Mary Jane Sinclair 
Miss Grace M. Sinclair 
Herbert M. Rogers 
Miss Margaret R. 

McKenzie 

Feb. 9, 1894. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Mary Adelaide 

Campbell 
Miss Effie Grace Cone 



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Miss Sarah Palmer 

Barnes 
Miss Ethel Thompson 
Henry John Stelhi 
Edward S. Black 
Richard Gries 
Miss Minnie W. 

Bofinger 
Miss Pauline Beissner 
Mrs. Elizabeth Moir 
Mrs. Ann M. Blaker 
Miss Maggie Henry- 
Miss Alice Andrews 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mrs. Mary C. Colby 
Miss Alice Edwards 

Colby 
Thornwell Mullally 
Mrs. Carrie Strall 
Chu M. Senng 
Dr. I. A. Neal 
William S. Bennett 
Miss Maggie Bell 
Mrs. Julia B. Bosworth 
Matthew C. Fleming 
Mrs. Angie W. Fleming 
Mrs. lyCtitia Orr 
Miss Grace A. Orr 

Apr. 5, 1S94. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Abett Ruinello 
Paul Marx 
Mrs. Eucy Marx 
Christian G. Muller 
Mrs. Barbara Walter 
Miss Mary Zimpleman 
John Prentice Kellogg 
Miss Eucy Inman 
Miss Edith Beadleston 
William Schuyler Smith 
H. Alexander Smith 
E. Emery Katzenbach 
John Andresen Kimber 
Miss Carlotte Clark 
Simmons 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Miss Anna Downing 
Mrs. Mary Riggs Hatch 
Mrs. Phebe E. Darragh 
Charles Raymond 
Miss Christine Lawson 
Miss M. Adele Chivis 



May 24, 1894. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Miss Gracie Rampfen 
Miss Mary Granzer 
George Gardner 
James S. Alderdice 
Miss Fannie Griswold 

Ely 
Arthur I. Slade 
Miss Cecelia Bornie 
Max Weil 
Mrs. Elizabeth Back 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Charles F. Balch 
Mrs. Annie Balch 
Miss Ellen Wood 
Archibald M. Stewart 
Mrs. Agnes O. Stewart 
Miss IMarguerite Taylor 
Miss Ella S. Murdock 
Miss Henrietta D. 

Elliott 
Horace Ward 
Prof. Henry A. Todd 
Mrs. Murian Gilman 

Todd 

Oct. II, 1894. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Julius F. P. VonEinden 
John Einsel 
Mrs. Selma Einsel 
Miss Adelaide Mahnken 
Miss Margaret E. Rice 
Miss Alma E. Wangler 
Miss Lizzie Shaurer 
Miss Annie EHz Tubman 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE f?^£,, 7^ jW, 

Mrs. Sherley C. Watkins admitted on profession 
Mrs. Jane Henry Mrs. Mary F. Gregory 

Mrs. Eillie E- P. Garth Mrs. Jessie C. McBride 
Horace D. Sherrill Miss Anna Eliza Keen 

Mrs. Eillie E. Sherrill Edward H. McCray 



William Stahl 
Mrs. Anna Winsted 
Mrs. Eizzie Morris 
Michael Murphy 
Mrs. Alva Winchester 
Miss Charlotte Freeljr 
Miss Alice Blaker 
Miss Clara May 
Kussm.and' 
Archibald H. McNeil 
Miss Annie Ullmer 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

William C. McBride 
Mrs. Mary J. McBride 
Mrs. Alice McBride 

Hall 
Mrs. Margaret Mary 

Munro 
Mrs. Eillie McComb 

Garth 
Miss Isabella 

Montgomery 
Frank P. Johnson 
George Douglas Young 
John B. Johnson 
William C. McGibbon 
Mrs. Jennie McGibbon 
Miss Mary Gray 
Miss Adelia B. Althause 
Mrs. Helen E. Lee 
Miss Catherine Campbell 
Frank W. Miller 
Mrs. Berrie I. Miller 
Miss Frank Miller 
Miss Harriette Hayden 

Miller 



Miss Charlotte F. 

Sherrill 
Miss Sarah Margaret 

Sherrill 
John C. Perry 
Jonathan Acheson 



Miss Annie Rippel 

Chu Don 

Miss Jeanette Frances 

Dowling 
Miss Barbara Eyre 
Noah Swan Davis 
Miss Isabella Clark 

Gibson 
Miss Martha McCook 



Dec. 6, 1894. 

ADMITTED on profession 

Walter Edward Keys 

Granville W. Garth admitted by certificate 

Mrs. Grace Hyer Miss Elizabeth Hunter 



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Miss Margaret Anderson admitted by certificate IMiss Anna B. Lawrence 
Charles Beatly Hallock Mrs. Sarah J. Warner James C. Mitchell 
Miss Sophia ,. „ W. A. Alexander 

Morgenthater ^^.^^ j^^J'^ j^'^^^,^^^ Mrs. Emily Grace 

Miss Juhe Mane Victor ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ gj.^^ Bauman 

Sherman I. Bacon ^^^^^ ^^^^^^.^ g^^^^^ Mrs. Augie Kinsley 

Mrs. Harriet A. Bacon „ , James H. Edwards 

Seth Wellington Johnson^^.^^ Mamie"^ Coffin f'"' i^'^'^ S. Edwards 

Miss Louise W. Johnson , Miss Elizabeth Edwards 

Miss Ella F. Johnson James A. Edwards 

Mrs. May Etta Young admitted by cERTiEicate Allen F. Edwards 

, ., , M^s- ^^^tilda A. Sloane jyirs. Sarah McCahon 

April II, 1895. Miss Margaret Cobban 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION John Downey ^eb. 6, 1896. 

Miss Mary Stimson ^igg ciaj-a Agnes admitted on profession 

Weston Downey Alfred Emanuel 

Mrs. Catherine Woerner ^rg. Adelaide E. V°" ^^^ muhll 

Mrs. Mary H. Bates Hastings Samuel Thomas 

Miss Alice Gift'ord Earnest Frey Miss Eleanor Nancy 

Agnew Mrs. Margaret Frey Thomas 

Hugh Hamilton Getty Mrs. Kate Moore Baker ^^in Cameron Mclntyre 
Miss Alice Ball Pinkus Miss Grace Baker Joseph Varnum Mott 

William James Glassey Miss Emily Baker Miss Annie Sass 

Miss Marie Warner Miss Isabella Munro Miss Eliza Asher 

Work Mrs. Marion McColl Alexander Hamilton 

David Jennings Dunn 

Culpepper Oct. 10, 1895. Mrs. Eliza Dunn 

Mis<5 Elizabeth Kerr ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

mS MSe'n/"' M.S. Ma.. Hanle. ---.o ...„.„„„ 

Duttweiller admitted by CERTIFICATE Miss Katie C. Steele 

Miss Josephine Mag- Mrs. Nellie Aitken j^jjgg -^^^^ ^^ Davis 

delene Wessbecher Mrs. Catherine E. Frederick W. ' Menzies 

Miss Jennie Louise Cheeseman Conrad Bluhm 

Flanagan Miss Eliza Hamilton 

E T Baird ^P^- 9, 1896. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ^ ^ x>airu f y, y 

T A TXT 1 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

James A. M^cauley p,,. 5^ ,S95. Miss Ruth Mary Sabin 

Mrs Katie ^. Macauley ^„^,„^^ ^^ profession Miss Eleanor Marian 
J. Sinclair Armstrong Miss Jennie Jemison Brown 

Mrs. Lizzie H. McBride ^iss Bertha E. Shefer 

AK . T T'^.. ^''' ^"*^ ^''^^' Miss Elsie M. Shefer 

Abraham J. Brandt McBride \\T■^^■ ci r^ m 

-r, , iviLiariuc William Sloane Coffin 

Mrs. Brandt Miss Beatrice Clark t\t- tti /^tvt uj 

Duncan McColl McBride t t. t^t t t 

,, „ iviccriae j^j^j^ jj_ Inman, Jr. 

McGregor Miss Edith Blanche q^iu Kee 

Mrs. Grace L. Stevens McGibbon j.^n Leggett Pultz 

James Fahey Mrs. Matilda Burnett Mrs. Ada S. Elsworth 
Mrs. Caroline C. ht- tt • ^x t • 

^ . ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Miss Henrietta Joenim 

„ ^ -TT . Benjamin F. Wotkyns Miss Madeline Wensted 

E. Lawrence Hunt t-> wt-u- t^ ■^T■ at • tt 

-_ ..... Dr. William D. Miss Maggie Harvey 

Mrs. White „ .^, ,,. . . ^ 

Frenwith Miss Annie Freese 

May 9, 1893. M. Clark McEwen Miss Louisa Steekler 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Miss Sarah A. Stratton Miss Emma Kanke 

Miss Elizabeth Graham Mrs. Sarah B. LawrenceMiss Ella VanDuzer 

James Thomas Heeney Miss Louisa F. Miss Louisa Bonella 

Albert Waldman Lawrence Miss Mary Knoff 



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Miss Annie Lockman admitted by cERTiFfiCATE John Newfold 

Miss Elizabeth Franklin Leonard Henry Blumberger 

Duttweiler Mrs. Sarah S. Leonard admitted by certiFicaTS 

Miss Mamie Schweizer William Barbour Miss Alice Rutherford 

Miss Lillian Mary Simpson ^^s. Eliza Jane Buskey 

Flanagan Mrs. Margaret Georgina Miss Fannie Ellen 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Simpson Wright 

Mrs. Elizabeth Manch Miss Alice Walker Karl Louis Victor 

Frederick H. Schaufler Simpson Mrs. Marianna C. Cobb 

John T. Mills, Jr. John Anderson Simpson ^^ gilas F. Hallock 

William B. Brokaw Miss Marie Agnes SpearMrs. Sarah Hallock 

Mrs. Mary A. Brokaw Miss Florence Spear Henry R. Banner 

William Brokaw Thomas H. Allison Miss Caroline Halsted 

Miss Florence L- William Leslie Thomas Savage Clay 

Brokaw q^^ g ^^^ Mrs. Mary W. Shearer 

George D. Brechenridge ^^^,^^^^\^ profession ^iss Mary Young 

Mrs. Laura Stechler David Morrison Coffin Shearer 

Mrs. Margaret Scott Miss Elizabeth E. 

Tir TV/r * T^U-^^r^r, ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE cu 

Mrs. Margaret Johnson ^ ■, t Shearer 

Mrs. Sarah L. ,,. t-.-,-^, t ci. 
_, ^^ , Miss Edith L. Shearer 
Dec, J894. Heuvelman _ , tt c^1- 
^ , _ ^^ ^^ Leander H. Shearer 
ADMITTED ON PROFESSION John O. Mott T,,. A • T 
TT Tt- ^,rTxr T^/~>L-x Miss Annie Lawson 
Henry Leehr Mrs. Mary E. Corbit - ^ ^.. , ,, 
,,.,,, James E. Mitchell 
Miss J. Moyene -l r> ^^r • u^ 
McSorley ^^^- ^' ^^^^' ^^^- ^^^""^ ^- bright 
^ „ „^ ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Miss Elizabeth J. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ,,, ^^ -o ^ -ixr • t,.. 

,_ „ , T, ,£, Walter Buxton Wright 

Mrs. Sarah Proudfit t,^. x • t ^ 

Miss Jessie Lambe 

June, 1895. Henry Rosch •'""• ^' "^*^^- 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

William C. Courtenay 
Miss Josephine Arenza 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Miss Rliza Chebon 
Oct., 1895. ^iss Mary Mahon 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Alexander Manson ^^b. ii, 1897- 

Herman Leehr ^ ^ ^ ^r'7''u- °^ /,^°™°^ 

T,,.,,. -I. .^ Dec. 10, 1896. Mrs. Lillian Clarke 

William Fritz ' ^ ,,7 -r^ r, 

Frederirk Barrkart Tr ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Mrs. Agnes K. Spear 

Frederick Barckart, Jr. ^.^^ ^^^^ ^.^^ Harkness Alfred W. Spear 

Dec, 1895. Miss Phebe Lord Theodore Meineche 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION McCormick Mrs. Louisa Meineche 

Mrs. Martha Rogers Charles Clifford Sloane Mrs. Gertrude 

Albert Kuhn Henry Wilkes Sherrill Weishardt 

P , „ , Chu Hong John Lohman 

admitted' o'n 'pro'fession ^f " 1^""^ ^'' Minnie Miller 

Miss Julia Kisnaul ^^^" ^ong Miss Katie Renker 

Miss Lillian Flanagan Conway Wing Shearer Miss Clara Asher 

Miss Mamie Shweizer 1'''''' ^^^^.^ ^^^"^^^ Thomas Aiken 

Miss Lizzie Duttweiler Henry Edwm Hall admitted by CERTIFICATE 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ^^''' ^f^""^ ^™°"'" ¥''' ^l^^f^ . ^^"^''^ 

Alexander Roy ^,. ^^^g^^o" Miss Ellen Irwin 

Mrs Rov Hjalmar Irving PetersonPhilip W. Fruauf 

Mrs* Kate Ro Gustav W. A. Reichel Mrs. Estella Gertrude 

Miss Lillie Mary Ross Fruauf 

May 28, 1896. Mrs. Henrietta Sturm Miss Annie Letham 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Mrs. Carrie Lendermer Mrs. Florence J. Blair 
Miss Gertrude J. Snook Mrs. Pauline Bauman Miss Mary Alsop Dwight 



ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Frank Morterville 
Miss Amelia M. Bender Holmes 

Miss Ida Smith 



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Mar. II, 1897. 



Nov, II, 1897. 



Jan. 6, 



ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 



Miss Mary H. Holmes George Richard Kafe 
Miss Clara Wiley Frederick Beclier 

Mrs. Rose Becher 
Louis Schoenewolf 
Mrs. Annie Buchner 
Otto Golde 



Apr. 8, 1897. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Nannie Barclay 

Seer 

Miss May Emery 
Miss Ethel Musier 

Taintor 
Graham Brush 
Thomas Markoe 

Robertson 
Martin W. Kellogg 
Edward W. Ropes 
Chu Sheol Jung 
Eem Doo 
Harry Grimm 
Peter Anderson 



Oscar Eoos 

IMiss Helen M. N. 

Wilson 
Miss Louisa Koehler 
Mrs. Mary Brosang 
Alexander Sievewright 
Christopher Rosch 



John T. Trimble 
Mrs. Alice Trimble 
Miss Eva Bontems 

Feb. 10, 1898. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Miss Virginia Campbell 

Randall 
Walter Lovett Randall 
Edward Stuart Peck 
Finley I. B. Weller 
Miss Marie Henrietta 

Winkhaus 
Ogden Dutcher 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Chu Shea 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

M. J. Finley Weller 
ADMiTTED^ON PROFESSION TI^^^^^ Chalmers Raine 

John Nicolson, Jr. 
William T. Stuchell 



Dec. 9, 1897. 



Charles Russell 

Auchincloss 



William J. Helfs 
Mrs. Maggie Darling 

Helfs 
George Alexander 

McDonald 
Mrs. James T. Bolles 

June 3, 1897. 



Miss Elizabeth 

Auchincloss 



Feb. 24, 189S. 



ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Miss Eva Walcott Peck Miss Annetta Desibis 
Miss Abba C. Blaffer Charles Munz 



Miss Graciebel Bolles 
James C. Auchincloss 
Gordon Auchincloss 
Mrs. Theresa Karl 



Joseph Borstemps 



ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ^^-^^ j^^ g-^^j 

Miss Anna Mclntyre ^^.^^ ^^^.^ kittle 
Mrs. Catherine Tobey ^^,^.^^ ^^^^.^ ^^^^^^^ 
Mrs. Elizabeth Williams 

Tobey 
Orville Hunt Tobey 
Miss Stephen Karl 
Miss Annie Buchner 
Miss Etoile Elliot 
Miss Mary E. Bauer 
Miss Bertha Dich 
Miss Ida Knauth 



Apr. 7, 1898. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

James McCosh Magie 
Anton Henry Schaeffer 
Miss Elizabeth 
Miss Charlotte .Catherine Weishardt 

Seckler Mrs. Lizzie Voigt 

Miss Florence White ^enry Somers 
Mrs. Elizabeth Redling admitted by certificate 
Mrs. Ottellia Weishardt George E. Stedman 
Mrs. Stedman 



Dr. Frank Matthews 
Mrs. Sarah H. Polhemus 
Miss Cornelia Polhemus 
Miss Sarah Polhemus 



May 5, 1898. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

John O'Brien 
Lawrence Bonadeo 
Morris Adam Stuttzbach 
Mrs. Elizabeth 
Stuttzbach 



Mrs. Jessie Starke 

Mrs. Eliza Espenheim 

Mrs. Annie Erickson 

Mrs. Sophia Rohn 
^"'"ri"", ''''.^^f ™.!^''^ Mrs. Mary Eichler 

Miss Lena Eichler 

Mrs. Barbara Schmitt 

Mrs. Caroline Kopka 

Mrs. Kate Bird 

Oct. 7. 1897. Miss Alice Mary Heyd ^I|-s- Annie Schaeffer 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Mrs. Christina EHzabeth^'^^^^^^ Fisher 
Mrs. Josephine Kroff Drautz ^^^^- Bertha Peborsky 

James Alexander Frame, William Aury Blauvelt Mrs. Kate Smith 
Jr. Mrs. Mary Smith 

Miss Ethel May Kimber admitted by CERTIFICATE Mrs. Annie Smith 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Mrs. M. A. Blair Miss Annie C. Barth 

Henry E. Prentice Miss Johanna Ross Peter Campbell 

John C. Ranscher Miss Agnes Frazer George Wagner 



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Mrs. Ellen E. Bownes Charles Oelschlager May 25, i8gg. 

Miss Annie Wildey George Reincke admitted on profession 

Mrs. Conway Miss Hannah M. Grimm Russell Stuart Tucker 

Gustav lyoos 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Thomas Conway ^''^^^ Loos 

Miss Sophie Brower 
May 26, 1898. Miss Margaret I^oveday 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Philip Newbold 
Miss Marjorie Tallman ^iss Mary Steieshoffer 

Sinclair Miss L,ouise Bazniski 

Joseph Rowland Miss Annie Bazniski 

Auchincloss Miss Sophie Hein 

Robert William Stewart Miss Julie Hein 
Cortlandt Dixon Barnes 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE T.T- a,- /^ -d ,, 

,^ ^ • o T • 1 Miss Alice C. Ball 
Mrs. Carrie S. L,eighton ,^ ,., z^,,,^ 
,, _ ,, -cv T J ^^rs. John O. Mott 

Mrs. Janette E. Leonard ,,. ,, ^ ,, ^^ 
TIT A Tvr /->j 1 Miss Mary I. Mott 

Mrs. A. M. Odeneal ,,. * . ,, 

,,. ,, -r, „ Miss Augusta Mott 

Mrs. Mary Powell , ,. „, . .., 

T^ -J T nr /-v ^ Miss Clara A. Warner 

David L McComb ,,. » t .u 

Miss A. lantha 



Oct. 6, 1898. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Miss Adele Forbes 
Francis Bonner Forbes 
Mrs. Sophie Somers 
Frank Kaiser 
Miss Elsie Lipp 
Miss Minnie Mattera 
Miss Louise Baiste 



Slaughter 
Feb. 9, 1899. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Henry PL Mott 



Oct. 5, 1899. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

George C. P. 

Stoltzenberg 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS 

Mrs. Barbara Chase 
Dec. 7, 1899. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Miss Victoria Fivey 
Gustav Mauritz Sjobeek 
Mrs. Augusta Josephine 

Sjobeek 
Mrs. Katie Metzel 
Mrs. Wilhelmina Loulss 

Traub 
Mrs. Ellen Barrie 
Mrs^ Margaret Neumiller 
Samuel Neubold 
Miss Frieda Ottman 
Charles Wessbeeker 
Andrew Arganza 



Mar. 9, 1899. 



Feb. 8, 1900. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Miss Grace Stanley 
William Otto Munz Brownell 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ^^^^' ^''^"^^s E- William Fletcher Irwin 

Robert Dixon Hiccenbothen Aiiss Annie Petrolina 

Mrs. Jessie Dixon Mrs. Henrietta Olschlager Pavlis 

Miss Ethel Scott Dixon -^-^'S- Annie Baker Migg Annie Petrolina 

Mrs. Adelphena Wolf Paukner 

Nov. 10, 189S. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Miss Clara Mary Fulda 
Arthur Blackburn 
William Holmes 
Charles Murdock 
David Graham 



Miss Florence Gilmore 

Newbo.d 
Miss Minnie Keller 
Mrs. Minnie Fox 
Miss Rose Schoenwolff 
Joseph Schoenwolfif 
Philip Kuskunna 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Miss Mary Kralish 
Mrs. Annie Jane Parry Albinus Netzel 
Mrs. Mary Gray 
Mrs. Joanna A. E. 
Hengstenberg 
Mrs. Agnes Ramppan 
Frederick Albes 

ADMITTED LY CERTIFICATE 
J. Henry M. Pryde ^^^_ ^^ ^g^^^ 

Dec. 8, 1898. ADMITTED ON PROFESSION William F. Goldine 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Miss Agnes Hughes Miss Olga Miller 
Miss Matilda Harriet Miss Eliza Anderson 

Miss Florence Raymond 
Miss Ruth Gunther 

Winant 
Mrs. Lena Durath 
Miss Lena Durath 
Miss Katie Dicke 



Brau 
Eugene Hohl 
Samuel Johnston 
William E. Wernan 
James Voigt 
Joseph McDermott 
Miss Loretta Louise 

Aberle 



Feb. 9, igoo. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Miss Caroline Alexander 
McCook 

Miss Mary Knecht 
Tobey 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Miss Catherine Priest 
Albert I. Edwards Crane 



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Henry Herschel Adams George Ambridge Taylor 
Mrs. Helen Redington Mrs. Ellen E. 

Adams Pickenback 

Elzey E. Meacham admitted by certificate 

Mrs. Lulu G. Meacham joj^n Vimont Lyle 
Malcolm L. Meacham 

May 24, igoo. 
Mar. 8, igoo. admitted on profession 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Miss Marian Edwards 
Miss Katie Knox j^jjss Maria W. G. Ely 

Miss Rosie Knox Frank I^uwood Lealy 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Montgomery DeF. 
Frank Cassera EaRoche 

Charles Slade Inman 
Apr. 5, igoo. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Miss Janet Drummond 

Morrison 
Frederick Clark Inman 
Miss Edna Florence 

Brown 
Miss Ellen Rowena 



Miss Florence Bolles 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mrs. Jmogene H. Lyle 
Mrs. Emma Grace Sealy 
Eli Baldwin 
Mrs. Abba Louisa 

Baldwin 
Mrs. Margaret P. 

Mathes 
Harry A. Smith 

June 17, igoo. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
James Henry Byron 
Mrs. Jane Byron 

Oct. II, igoo. 



Meyer 
Chu Homm 
Chu Sam 
Chu Fung 
Chu Gain 
Chu Chee 
Chu Yen 
Chu Nion 
Henry Walter 
Miss Gertrude Weishardt admitted on profession 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Clifford Vail Brokaw 
Miss Anna A. Ponder Donald Bunker Sinclair 
Mrs. Sarah Ann HalstedJoye Joseph 



Elliott Danforth 
Miss Laura Goertz 
John Stewart 
Miss Dorothea Allison 

Apr. 8, i8gg. 



Mrs. Mary Cross 
Mrs. Sarah Minall 
Mrs. Sophie Huggins 
Miss Anna Foester 
Miss Anna Stephan 
Mrs. Barbora W. Kolb 



ADMITTED ON PROFESSION j^jigs Frieda Voyt 



Miss Antonia Link 
August Metzler 
John Conrad Kloss 
Walter Hahne 
Emil Muller 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Vasclav H. C. Ziegler 
Mrs. Amanda A. Varroy 



Miss Margaret Barrie 
Mrs. Tillie Proper 
John Apgar 
Mrs. Helen Margaret 
Apgar 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATB 

Arthur King Wood 
Wilfred Post 
May g, igoo. Mrs. Rebekah B. Purves 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Miss Eleanor K. Purves 
Mrs. Sophie E. Zeller Miss Rebekah S. Purves 
Miss Bertha Annie HavaMrs. Mary Campbell 
Miss Louise Barzmaier House 

Miss May Goetz Miss Elizabeth House 



Otto G. Smith 

Mrs. Lettie H. Smith 

Robert A. Lindner 

Nov. g, igoo. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Catherine Iriohn 
Arthur Ludwig Esche 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

John M. Palm 
Mrs. Kelley Johnson 

Dec. 6, igoo. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Philip W. Henry 
Mrs. Julia E. Matthews 
James Marshall Stuart 
Mrs. Jessie Coe Stuart 
Mrs. Faith M. Eckhout 
George Albert 

Von der Muhll 
Mandeville MuUaly 
Mrs. Jermian Stoddard 

Duncan 
Dr. Geo. Houston Bell 
Gustavus A. Mooney 
Geo. E. Dunscomb 

Jan. 10, igoi. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Miss Annie Shilhan 
Miss Annie H. Kouba 
Miss Bertha Plarabes 
Miss Mary Valda 
Joseph James Schaffer 
William White 
George Washington 

Bowne 
Charles DeSavis 

Peh. 7, igoi. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Helen M. Delong 
Miss Emma Yates 
J. Marshall Stuart, Jr. 
Lewis W. Plornblower 
Geo. S. Hornblower 
Miss Mildred M. Purves 
Mrs. Margaret Stohlman 
Miss Minnie Smith 
Miss Minnie Johnston 
Miss Christien 

DeHennings 
George Siederman 
ADMITTED BY CERTIPICAT* 
David Stewart 
A. Gordon Murray 



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Mrs. Anna Still admitted by cmritiCAtt admitted by certieicats 

J. A. Haughwout Miss Luella Murkland Miss Catherine Amard 

Henry R. Sutphen Mrs. Helena Dyke Woobel 

Miss Annette K. Hall Everitt 

^ Feb. 6, igo2. 

Mar. 7, 1901. Oct. lo, igoi. admitted on proeessiom 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED ON PROEESSiON Miss Janetta Alexander 

Wilham I,eehr Euthymois Lambrides 

William Graham Miss Jane Radcliff admitted by ceeti^icaTS 

Miss Rose Marie Johnson Kirkman J? t „ ^^ w r^ ^ 

Mrs. Lillian W. Charles 
Apr. I J, igoi. James Juamoreaux 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Gladwyn Mar. 6, 1902. 

Miss Harriet Harris Miss Frances Elizabeth admitted on profession 

Sabin Bernard Thomas J. Macdonald 

Miss Johanna Mattheta admitted by certificate ^^"^^"^ ^^^^ 
Frederick Ball Pinkus Mjgg i^oulie Redus Albert lycnhert 

Walter DeVereaux Kirkman Miss Augusta Fuhrman 

Pi"^"s jajnes ^^ Thomas 

Miss Josephine Hall pj^ra Thomas ^^''' '°' '^°'- 

Charles Volz william Thomas ^^^^J^^V""" "^°'^''^°'* 

ADMITTED BY CERT1FICAT8 Miss Mary Barnett Shaw^^" J^° ^^ 
Charles E. Mole3 Henry W. Jessup ^^^ ^'"^ , „ ^ ^ 

Mrs. Helen Dodge Mary H Tessuo ^^"'^ ^°'^''''" ^"^ 

Moles ^ ^'u ^r-,,. Matthew Griswold Ely 

■^°^^* Miss Catherine I^illian „ n ■ 1 ^ tti 

Miss Laura Cox Shearer Horace Gnswola Ely 

Mrs. Anna E. Gillies Lorenzo Todd Getty 

Miss Phinnie Brunner Nov. 7, 1901. Miss Emma Forbes 

Samuel Derichson admitted on profession Miss Evelyn Anastaisia 

Susan T. Derichson Miss Tillie Deorn Hess 

Miss Hattie P. DerichsonFred Rehberg Augustus John MuUinger 

Miss Sue Derichson Thomas McMullen Miss Elizabeth Williams 

Miss May Derichson n. . ..., ^^" ^^"^ Schultingor 

^^^- 5, 1901. Arthur Loveday 

May 13, 1901. ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Frederick Mattem 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Siegfried Schultz Harry Williams 

Wm. L. McAlhs ter Miss Anna Wurth ^,^^ Sarnie Leyh 

William A. Matthews John Leyh j^^ j^ ^jl 

Maud Craig Matthews Miss Martha Davis 

T t. TT '* ^'='''" ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS 

May so. 1901, ^°^" ^^"""^ Wassman ^rs. Florence D. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ^'^^ ^^^^in^, Elizabeth Stevenson 

Miss Anna Dudley Hart Witte j^iss Alexandra Bjering 

Miss Maud Stanbridge admitted by certificate ^rs. Mabel Potter 

May ^"- ^'■^""s W. Thompson 

Mrs. Mary Louisa Goller Downes j^^s. Bertha Thayer 

Miss Anna Roth Frederick A. Downes Morris 

Miss Marian Kraft ^oit^h Bejeck j^^s. Maria Graham 

Miss Rosa Carolyn Barbara Bejeck Patterson 

Bradish Jan. 9, 1902. Miss Lavinia B. 

Mrs. Haldion Smith admitted on profession Patterson 

Herman Charles Llewelyn D. Pritchard Vasclav H. C. Ziegler 

Fuhrman Miss Caroline Leehr Mrs. Florence Monteith 

Mrs. Annie A. Burchart Miss Alice G. Hutler Mrs. Sarah McBurney 

Miss Lena L. Leehr Mrs. Anna Lommer Miss Ella Marie 

Miss Etta A. Handte Mrs. Emma W. Maybeck Whittenblecker 

Miss Sophie M. Miss Josephine SchremerMiss Louise Elizabeth 

Habermann Miss Pauline Braxmaier Neuheisel 



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May 29, 1902. Nov. 6, 1902. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Arthur A. Anderson Mrs. Louise Westing 
Mrs. Sarah Joseph George Rohn 

ADMITTED BY cERTiFicaTS ^'^^ ^^^^^ha Maria 
James Gilleland ^"I'^a 

James R. Magoffin admitted by certificats 

Mrs. Maria S. Wells 
Oct. 16, 1902. Mrs. Ida S. Wells 

admitted on profession Mrs. Mary Ann Tait 
Harold Coe Stuart Miss Mary Jane Tait 

Mrs. Apolonia Debusck Mrs. Grace W. Berry 



Miss Clara Weisman 
John Battger 
William John Miller 
Christian N. Grimm 
Mrs. Celestea Snow 
George Hutter 
Miss Emily Augusta 

Espenhain 
Frederick Chas. Loersch 
V/illiam Hamburg Manek admitted by certiFicaTS 
Adolph Dorn ^^^i^ Barclay Kirby 

Henry Reichman Mrs. Emily Rees Kirby 

Mrs. Nellie Elizabeth ^^^^^^ Remick 



Dec. II, 1902. 
admitted on profession 
Edward Karl 
Miss Katie Ivipp 
Miss Rosa Jude 
Clarence Schmelzel 
Miss Annie Firbell 
Miss Isabel Alexander 



Lynch 
Mrs. Monica Siewert 
Mrs. Anna Hubert 
Mrs. Lizzie A. 

Livingstone 
Miss Louise Jeannette 

Hubbell 



Mrs. Carrie A. Remick 
Miss Elizabeth McCand- 

less Crawford 
Miss Olga Lund 
Adam McDowell 

Matheson 
A. Scott Matheson 
Mrs. Sarah P. Matheson 
il^'^.'^S^^LTr^"'"''''^ Joseph Roy Robbins 

Miss Marian Halleday 
Miss Christina McEwen 
Paul McElroy 
Charles C. Nucheuer 
Mrs. Margaret Reed 

Nucheuer 
Edward D. Terbell 
Mrs. Elyean Terbell 



Henry W. BoUes 
Walter P. Bolles 
David B. Ivison 
Mrs. Emeline M. Ivison 
Miss Sarah B. Ivison 
Miss Rebecca Brown 

Bull 
Mrs. Rebecca Jane 

Layton 
Samuel Wylie 
Mrs. Annie Wylie 
Miss Margaret Wylie 
James Mennie 
Mrs. Joanna Mennie 
Mrs. Eliza Amelia Ives 
Robert Coburn 
Mrs. Letetia Coburn 
David Scott 

Oct. 17, 1902. 



Dec. 17, 1902. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Leonora Van 

Schenck Tomey 

Jan. 8, 1903. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Edward Charles Robert 

Rohr 
George Apgar 
Albert Arthur Keer 



ADMITTED ON PROFESSION George Alexander 
Burton Judson Berry Graham 



Frank John Lehnert 
William Clark 
Miss Laura Kussmaul 
Miss Maria Cogswell 

Bliss 
Miss Alice Vivienne 

Farrington 
Emil P. Gebhard 
George Taylor, Jr. 
John Taylor, Jr. 
Antoinette Taylor 

ADMITTED BY CERTIPICATR 
Charles Walter Artz 
Daniel Morgan Dunham 
Miss Nannie Wells 

Goodman 
Miss Ellen T. Gould 

Feb. 5, 1903. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Miss Mamie Walters 
Miss Christina Stolliman 
Miss Ida Schultze 
Percival Jane Mcintosh 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Hugh Clare Kendell 

Hester 
Harvey P. Miller 
Mrs. Elizabeth Miller 
Harvey Haydock Miller 
Mrs. Elizabeth S. 

McCulloh 
James Nicolson 
Mrs. Mary G. Nicolson 
Miss Jane Marlin 
Miss Margaret Russell 
James Thompson 
Francis I. Pursell 
Mrs. Bernice Pursell 
Miss Edith Norman 

White 
Mrs. Agnes McMullen 
Mrs. Ethel Florida 

Mcintosh 

Mar. 5, 1903. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Miss Jennie Burchart 
Miss Susan M. Flanagan 
Miss Carrie T. Lynch 

Apr. 12, 1903. 
Reginald LaGrange 

Auchincloss 
Chu Poo Wah 
Chu Sam Toy 



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Frank Stuart Hunt 
Philip Bevan LaRoche 
Henry Herbert Jessup 
Theodore Carrington 

Jessup 
Miss Helen Gertrude 

Kernaghan 
Miss Olive Maude 

Stafford 
Frederick Winkhaus 
Miss Annie Svoboda 
Mrs. Lrillie Anderson 
Miss Annie Kchstem 
Miss Mary Kessler 
Hector Joseph Martin 
Mrs. Gertrude Metzler 
Mrs. Fannie Reichart 
Mrs. Nellie Brown 
Leo Alfonse Rice 
Andrew Winstedt 
George Emil Winstedt 



Ethel E. Schilling 
Leonard Leidemer 
Hattie Neas 
Pauline Schuhriemen 
Joseph Schuhriemen 
Thomas Westing 
Mrs. Mary Boyce 
William Kaufman 
Thom.as Chase 
Henry Wolleman 

ADMITTED BY CSRTIFICATB 

George Elliott Fleming 
Henry Alfred Ha worth 
Mrs. Sarah Hunter 

Haworth 
Mrs. Mary L. Miller 
Mrs. Mary Munroe 
Mrs. Mary D. Townsendj^jgg 
Frederick A. Wallis Miss 



George Cunningham 
Mrs. Catherine Lehnert 
Miss Josephine Bejeck 
Miss Agnes M. Dobias 
Miss Antionette Nohynek 
Bernard Pavlis 
Miss Eva L. Schaef 
Miss Emma Zimffer 

ADMITTED BY CERTIPlCAfS 

Charles Rose 
Thomas Bryce 
Agnes Bryce 

Dec. 10, 1903. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Harry F. Hartjen 

John Jones 

Albert L. McKean 

Caroline Hanisch 
Minnie Klaeman 



Charles Klingel 

Mrs. Helen M. Klingel 

ADHITTED BY CERTIFICATE ^DMITTED ON PROFESSION ^.^^^^^ ^^.^^ 



Oct. 8, 1903. 



Edward Dobias 
Jacob Hack 
Frank Shaffer 



Dwight H. Day 

Miss Ida T. Hawkins 

E. Hicks Herrick 

Mrs. Adelaide L Herrick^ustave Bergenholz 

Mrs. Starrich Cochrane ^enry Ziska 

jj^^xit Leonard Raumeo 

Charles T. Lark Stephanie Bartunek 

Miss Glida Day Rogers Louise Bejeck 
Heinrich Ernest 



Stephanie Vojech 
Jennie Engel 
Julia Nohynek 
Amelia Fahrback 
Welch^^°^&^ Bulwinkle 

Mrs. Wilhelmina Ebner 

Bulv/inkle 
Nellie Klementina Wurth 



Schniewind 
Mrs. Helen G. 

Schniewind 
Miss Prudence H. 
William H. Woodin 
Mrs. Annie Jessup 

Woodin 
Albert N. Stevenson 

May 28, 1903. Sarah H. Polhemus 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Newcll H. Stewart 



Eleanor Butler 

Alexander 
Alexander Macauley 

Christie 
Mrs. Anna Clemme 
Adele Cragin 
Isabelle D. Morrison 
Charles Fred Pabst 
Irene M. Brenton 
Gertrude E. Dunn 



Mrs. Anna M. HerrmannMiss Louise Benson 
Jennie McElroy ]\Iiss Harriet F. 

Florence I. Rice Alexander 



Miss Mary Watt 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

William Edgar Caldwell 
Miss Martha I. Cook 
Charles F. Darlington 
Mrs. Lelitia Craig 

Darlington 
Andrew L. Gardiner 
Miss Dorothea E. Lewis 
Miss Anna Louise 

Lindguist 
Miss M. Cary 

MacConnell 
Miss Christina MacLeod 
Mrs. Mary Maswell 
Mrs. Caroline O'Neill 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ^^^j.^^ ^ p 

Mrs. Sarah H. Polhemus,, _, t • 

Mrs. Donna Irvine 

Trull 
Miss Rosa A. Tweed 
Kiliaen VanRensselaer 
Miss Rachel B. 

Worrall 
John Gilliland 
Miss Lizzie McMullen 

Gilliland 
Miss Annie Norris 
Mrs. Mary Sussman 

Jan. 7, 1904. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

John Henry Lewis 
Knapp Sewell 



Mrs. Mary A. Stev/art 
Nov. 5, 1903. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Wallace Campbell 
Miss Carrie Mehnken 
Chu Foon Ki 
John McRae Manck 
George Leicht 
George Henry Rose 



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Frederick Gottelieb Josephine Schaffer admitted by CERTIFICATE 

Handle John H. Maybach Mrs. Elizabeth Janet 

Miss Laura Brown Myrtle White Elmore 

Edward Aims Mrs. Alice Tully Elizabeth Mortimer 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATB ADMITTED BY CERTIEICATK Elmore 

Mrs. Elizabeth Allen Mrs. Magdalene W. ^^''^y H. Harkey 

Palm Froschl 

Miss Leila Ada Mrs. Wilhelmina Oct. 13, 1904. 

Chapman McHardy admitted on professiok 

Mrs. Isabel Betz Mrs. Johanna Beyer 

Feb. 14, 1904. Florence Shepard Rogers 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Apr. 7. 1904. Jean Whiting 

MiS3 Emma Dinger admitted on profession Mary Louise Woodin 

Miss Susan Seldon c^u Dot Douglas Campbell 

Drisdale c^u John May Charles Julius Froener 

Miss Fanny Schilz q^^^ j^^^ Margaret Froener 

Miss Lizzie Schilz Riujiro Ishimuna Elizabeth Homburger 

Miss Mary Wirtz Ruius Leighton Anna Keen Malony 

Pffh TT TnnA MacDuffie 

teo. II, 1904. T t. T • • . -o- 11 admitted by certipicatr 

admitted on profession J°h" Livingstone Bissell ^^^^^^^^^ -q^^^^^ 
Herbert L Hinley Emma Jeannette Bissell ,^^^ j^^^^ 

Adelbert Wm, John 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE p. , 

Jesiah Williamson ,. ^ . . „, , Dec. 8, 1904. 

i, ,,. . -_ , Mrs. Lizzie Blanche 

Mrs. Miriam Martha ^. , admitted on profession 

Danner ^ , „ ^!^ -r^ , • , John Flynn 

T -r. . ,, T^ Isabelle M. Frothinghara ^ ^^- c • 

James Ewing, M.D. c 1 • a ^ tv/t • Lottie Spring 

Mrs. Fannie S. Gardner ^/^J' \f; Whit"^^ ^^^^^^ Munroe Brown 

D. Rice Kempner ^^' ^^ ^ John Bowie Martin 

Mrs. Anna C. Kenpner ^ McCulloh Vivian Elise Pabst 

Mrs. Agnes Paul xf "herinrida slhulz ^^^'^^' °^^^" ^"^"^^^ 
George A. Schastey Grace Burnham Rogers 

Mrs. Alice Beggs admitted by certificate Eva Rich Wardell 

Schastey Mrs. Violetta Hawthorne 
Otto J. Schneider Bissell admitted by ceRTificaTS 

Mrs. Esther M. Schwab Corwin Black i^^^^ ^llen 

Elizabeth R. Smillie • Mrs. Jane Frazer Black Margaret Allen 

Jessie B. Smillie Mrs. Marion McCosh 1^"^-^ Allen. Jr. 

Daniel M. Thomas ^d^nund L. Dow, M.D. ^sther Allen 
Herbert R. Fullenwider William Allen 

Mar. 10, 1904. E^lias J. Herrick Mrs. Annie Allen 

admitted on profession Mrs. Margaret L. Sarah Chambers 

Edwin F. Marshall Herrick Mary Clark 

Elizabeth Spring b. Raymond Hoobler ^stelle M. Clark 

Alice Reich j^mes Sears McCulloh ^llen Carrington 

Rose Gosker charles Samson Hutcheson 

Gracie Brosang ^nnie G. Stabb Mrs. Mane C. Hall 

Robert Bryce Mcllivanie Knight 

Louisa Link Apr. 17, 1904. Ida May Knight 

Mrs. Hermina Dittrich admitted on profession John Horton Lee 

Ernest Reichman Anna F. Kopke Maria Lagie 

J. Horner Nelson Anna M. Simunek Clara L. McMurtry 

Mrs. Mary Homburger Florence E. Matheson 

Henrietta C. Notzelman May 27, 1904. John T. Nubel 

William M. G. Witte admitted on profession Elizabeth M. Thompson 

John W. Reichart Margaret Agnes JohnstonlMiriam T. Wilson 



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Jan. 5, J905. Apr. 7, J905. Mary Arganza 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Linden Wallace Bates, 
Harry C. C. Burgess Joanna Russell Jr. 

Henry Hermann Auchincloss Gertrude Eleanor 

Herman Rasch Mrs. Edna Loew Brokaw Fraenkel 

John S. Eggleston Caroline I^ee Mills 

Agnes Masher Margaret Juliet Shearer 

Anna Boardman Randall Mrs. Mabel Stone 
George Mulford Randall John H. Van Culin 



Mary Haas 
Margaret L,inke 
Anna Helen Bradae 
Philip Clague 
Charles Fox 
Charles Benedict Adler 
Mary Adler 

Feb. 10, 1905. 



ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Mrs. Emily M. Jewell 
Thomas Sloane Barnes Christina Nelson 
Charles B. Gunn 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS ADMITTED BY CERTIPICAT« 
Mrs. Anna Cowdery Sophia Carr 

Howard C. Brokaw Mehran Chakmakjian 

Hugh Ham.ilton Getty James W. Harle 
Mrs. Florence May Getty Mrs. Julia Coffin Harle 
James W. Harle, Jr. 
Jennie Maud McKee 



Helen Neypher 
Helaine Magnus Ruby Rees 

Jesse McConnell john K. Fatosian 

Sarah Mildred McCulIoh jojm Tonnele 
Margaretta Williams Kathrina Tonnele 

ADMITTED BY cERTiFicaTS Alice Widney Traver 



Benjamin P. Moore 
Mrs. Mary Varnum Mott 
Harriet Taylor 



William T. Brown 
Annie T. Brown 
Samuel A. Bulloch 
Annie Darner 
Clara Douglas 
Mrs. Sophia P. Gunn 
Mrs. Susette McWalty 

Harley 
William Sloane Inglis 
Sarah L. Meeks Inglis 
Herman Walter Kurz 
Esther M. Moore 
Edwin C. McWalty 
Walter G. Owen 
Dagmar H. Owen 
Albert J. Pitkin 
Annie Clarke Pitkin 



Guido Henri VonRossura 



Oct. 12, 1905. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Ida Zimmerman 
Martin Paulson 
May II, 1905. Wm, Fred. Henry Ralf 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ^^^* ^^^na H. C. A. 

Valentione 



Hengstenbergh 
Lusey T. Burkart 

Adele Brown 
William Staubach 
Emily R. Pritchard 
Christopher Hansen 
Anna Haubert 
Robert Manck 
Felix Witte 
Mana Stroka 
May Kozesnik 
Elizabeth Miller 



Elizabeth Bancroft PitkinJ°^" W. Blood 
Albertina Lane Pitkin 
John Stewart 
Jane E- Stewart 
Dr. James P. Tuttle 



Mrs. Minnie Blood 
Henry Kohla 
Oscar Veib 
John C. Rassbad 
May Nory 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Lizzie Jones 
Edward J. Klagiss Frank M. McNaught 

John Pavlis 
Alfred Schmidt 



Ralf 

Charles Ireland Stark 
Jeannette Stark 
Catherine Walter 
May Josephine Wellech 
Elsie H. Schoenborn 
Louise Ama Roth 
Walter Averill 
Charlotte Hamilton 

Fullarton 
Marie Louise Inglis 
Evelyn Sloane Inglis 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS 

Frances Griffiths 
James Aitken Harrar 
Claries Herman 
Walter Graham 



Mar. 9, 1905. 



Nov. 9, 1905. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Ellen Harrison 
Albert August William 
Oetgen 
Mrs. Dora C. McNaught Catherine Evers 
Mrs. Mary Schaefer Charles Louis Wissman 

Mrs. Emily Pauline 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE May 25, 1905. Mansfield 

May A. Murray admitted on profession admitted by certificate 

Albert Beier Phoebe E. Marshall 



Hannah Cadwalader 



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Mrs. Louisa M. Wissman admitted by certificate Hannah Bolz 

Albert Oetgen Clementine Bonne Lillie Roth 

Mrs. Augusta Oetgen Thomas H. Burton William John Crozier 

Wilhelmina Oetgen Annie Jane Curran Albert Rice 

Herman Oetgen Elmer C. Griffith Robert Thistle 

Mrs. Lucy S. Griffith Edward J. M. Froehner 

Dec. 8, 1905. (.Qj.^ J jj^j.^ Hannah Getzein 

ADMITTED ON /«0EESSI0N ^j^^_ ^^^^^ Reiseman George J. Schmitt. Jr. 

Frinds J C ^r ee ' ^^"- ^^^^y C. Hewitt George J. Schmitt 

rancis J. . Oliver Humphrey Louis Megvog 

JoZ't Wtakhaus ^^-^ ^- S'-"' ^'"«"" »*=«-^- 

Dr. Harold S. Vaughan Feb. 18, 1906. May 25, 1906. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED ON PBOFESSIOK 

Mrs. Sara C. Vaughan ^^^^- Margaret Holden Anna L. Stolzenburg 

M. E. Beall ^^"- ^nnie Graham admitted by certificaTB 

Mary S. Conover Charles Duttweiler m. Louise Beaty 

Jennie DeLacy Mrs. Margaret C. BensonD^vid Bell 

Minnie English M"- ^^a Camph Robert Bell 

Rudolph Erbsloh Ora Winchester Gustave H. Brevillier 

Mrs. Fannie E. Erbsloh Mabel Wiley Williams Dunlop 

Jannie Hemline Louise Benson Mrs. Eliza Kuhl Hughe. 

Margaret C. Mahon Ma7: 8 1906. Mary Asenath Jones 

Dr. Samuel Murtland admitted on profession Nathaniel Morrow 

Mrs. Anna A. jMurtland -^ij-^, Anna Haubert Mrs. A. Annie Morrow 

Dr. Alfred Schek jvjrs. Mamae Leehr Elizabeth Bassett Wilson 

Lizzie Taylor August Wm. Winters Oct. 12, 1906. 

Harriet Thrall John Bovce 

-' -LJuyv-c admitted on profession 

Dec. 24, 1905. Clement John Koukol William Henry Clark 

admitted by cERTiFiCATi: Charles Link j^^y Brucker 

Matthew J. Caldwell ' Peter Kessler Richard Dittrich 

Ferdinand L. Bulscher Henry Rudolf 
Jan. II, 1906. „ , . 

admitted by certificate Esstenheim 

ADMITTED BY cerTiFICaTS Gertrude Bernvose Clara Habetta 

James Fleming Annie Haller 

Feb. 8, 1906. ^''- ^' ''^^°- Robert William Kramek 

admitted on profession tt t 1- tvc 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ^^^^^^^ AuchincloSS ^^^^^^ ^^'^^^ ^^^^^ 

Elsie Krauz _, _ . Margaret Clemmens 

Anna M. Neu t u tj c^ ^ Schmitt 

John Henry Stewart 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Edgar Eginton Stewart V^"*°" . „r ,. 

John H. Scheu Frederick C. Wacheron ^!!"!" Jessup Woodm 

Mr<; Fva T Srheu VVilham Dunbar Morrow 
ivirs. r^^a. 1. ocneu ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 



Mrs, Abigail Wade r)^. Fergus F. Carr admitted by certificate 

Jeesie Wade Harris James Forrett 

Edward Wade Walter F. Diack Charles Taylor 

Feb. 9, 1906. J°^'" Hunter ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ 

admitted on profession R^'P" W. E. McGregor ^jjj^jtted on profession 

Elizabeth Mary Brown Eleanor M. Pendleton Evelyn Loretta Carroll 

Carrie Carll Xanthe S. Parker Margaret Elizabeth 

John Trail Mrs. Camilla H. j^ia^^h 

Gerhart C. Hesseman Stewart Edwin H. Manch 

John Butler Jessup Apr. 15, 1906. Caroline Schmitt 

Annie C. Thompson admitted on profession Frederika J. Winters 

Jennie Lyle McKinney Irene Flynn Charles William Hycr 



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George H. Schmick 
Agnes Jane Brodie 
Jeannie Glen Keith 
Jean Miller 
Isabella Alexander 

Murtland 
Bessie Lindsay Stormont K 
Mary Jane Mitchell 
Orin C. Baker 
Alice F. Baker 
Esther Griffin Ely 
Adelaide E. Grant 
Martin L. Lee 



Dr. J. A. Tonner 
Bertha Gray Webster 
Ida M. Wharton 
Ella H. White 
Helen White 
Wilbert W. White 
Bright Wilson 



Jr. 



Mar. 7, igoj. 



ADMITTED BY C%^t\tlCKt% 

Osborn M. Billings 
Harriet R, Billings 
James W. Cairns 
Ida R. Cairns 
Emma L. Curtis 
Margaret Lockhart 
Eliza Mae Herlie 
Cyprian Preston 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mrs. Mary Jane Mitchell 
Elizabeth M. Mitchell 
Margaret M. Mitchell 
Marion Beveridge Lee 
Thomas McKay 
Alma Durant Nicolson 
George E. Provost 
Brainard Rorison 
Mary V. Rorison 
Arda Bates Rorison 
Marabel Rorison 
Mary Thomson 
Adam Valentine 
Mrs. Clara K. Powell 

Bee. 7, 1906. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Leslie A. Gillette 



ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Martha Stewart 
Mrs. Amelia M. RosberyAlexander M. Stewart 
Rose Olga Slanar Emily Elizabeth Stewart 

Emma Caroline Slanar Elizabeth Sturrock 
Henry Joseph Paul William Vosburgh 

Mayback Mary S. Woodward 



June 6, 1907. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

John Dunn 
William Flanagan 
John Flanagan 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Minnie Langhorst 



April 12, 1907. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

C. Stockton Halsted 
Katherine McCook 



Elizabeth Holt Clark 
John Cooper 
Winifred M. Forsyth 
EHse Hoffman 
Rosa Belle Holt 
Thomas Lyons 
Agnes Melrose 
DeWitt C. Parshall 
Addie Patterson 
Mary Linn Patterson 
Ella F. Schmitt 
Bertha R. Smith 



Jan. 10, 1907. 
ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Mrs. Millie Burgess May 23, 1907. 

Louise Cooper Getzein admitted on profession 
Margaret Lertha Foester Dorothea Booker 



Mabel Grover Paul 

Philip Maas 

Robert Watson Main 

Feb. 7, 1907. 



Mildred Xylander 
Eva Staubach 
Florence Victre 
Alvena Hermann 

Oct. 10, 1907. 

admitted on PROFESSIOSr 

Norma M. Ferguson 
Gilbert Forbes 
Anna Cobb Hallock 
Florence May Thurbcf 
Lillie Bayer 
Christian Halsey 

ADMITTED BY CERTIMCATS 

Horace R. Baker 
Edwin F. Eadie 
Sarah Bingham Ferguson 
Lucinda Hamilton 
Madge Libbey Hoobler 
Carl P. Lawrence 
Wilber McBride 



Bertha Booker 

Emily J. W. 

MacCambridge 

John Mengler 

Mary Paukner 

ADMITTED on PROFESSION Richard Henry C. Ritter C°^^ McDowell 
Ellen Stuart Helen Lila Ritter Wm. Jay Mersereau, 

William Culyer Josephine Schiffert ^ ^.D. 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Frank Smolak Jennie M. Perine 

Caroline Burford DannerLiUian Buchart Endora Symington 



Lillian Cowan 
Adelaide Brown Fitch 
Caroline J. Howell 
Solomon W. Johnson 
Christina McEwan 
Elizabeth Patterson 
Annie Rea 
Mary Rea 



Morns Edward Farber 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE t v £>u -.xr • 

^ . , u- TT 1- Julius 6haw Weingart 
Carrie Josephine Haubert_ ,.^, ^ ,. ,,_?, 

Edith Caroline Wilcox 

May 24, 1907. Malcolm L. Wishart 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Dcc. 5, I907. 

Alice Emden admitted on PROFESSION 

David Morrison, Jr. Robert H. Burns 

Ottomar H. VanNorden Schreiner Cunier 



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Beatrice Alexandra 

Fosburgh 
Augusta Girod 
Christine Koerner 
Ellen McGee 
Mary Miller 
Joseph Schaeffer 
Adam S. Turnbull 
Elsie Eagan 
Florence Knickol 
Theresa Mackay 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Robert L,. Fosburgh 
Esther Fosburgh 
Esther Iv. Fosburgh 
James B. A. Fosburgh 
Harvey G. Furbay, M.D. 
William Gordon, M.D. 
Mary Wallace Gordon 
Edith Virginia Keister 
Kenneth McCaskill 
Helen Howell Moorhead 
Lindsay Russell 
Wm. ly. Hope Simpson 
James C. Stewart 
Amelia C. Stewart 
Fannibell Stewart 
James B. Stewart 
Mabel Adams Thompson 
Bettie Yoakum 
Katheryne Yoakum 
Bessie Yoakum 

Feb. 6, J908. 

ADMITTED ON PROEESSION 

Mary Crocker Alexander 
Henry Edward Gaham 

Cooke 
Faye Campbell Furbay 
Helen Blanche Furbay 
Alfred Geery 
Elizabeth Irving Geery 
Philip Caryl Jessup 
Mary Mackay 
Harriet McCook 
Livingston Piatt 
Saleem G. Tabet 
Florence Emily 

Underwood 
Elizabeth Bell 
Paul Dahlman 
Martha Dahlman 
Harry Hayden 
Philip Hofer 
Elsie Heubner 



Antoinette Julien 
William Kuntz 
Annie Miller 
John Ryan 
Carl Steen 
Pearl Cleveland 
Walter Kerr 
Irene M. Lehn 
Adelaide Morningstar 



Annie Catherine Johnson 
Walter Henry Mcrritt 
Andrew McCutcheon 
Elsie Pabst 
Ni Wah Soon 
Charlotte Spooner 
Annie West 
William Wagner 
Conrad Wagner 
Ernest Atthaus 



ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Richard Davis Anderson Charles Knoblock 
Dr. Walter R. Bruyere Charlotte Rettig 
Louis N. Bruyere Elizabeth Luhrs 

Mrs. Grace Ward Diack Sophie Carlson 
Paul Gerhard Lillian Barnes 

Elsie Elderkin Gallaudet Pauline L. Williams 
Margaret E. Hallenbcck Mrs. Margaret Bird 
Wilbur Chapman 
Hallenbeck 



Jennie Henry 
Walter S. Huffman 
Annie Jenkins 
Stella Edna Johnston 
Dr. Charles E. McPeek 
Wilbert B. Smith 
Walter W. Wood 
Elizabeth J. Wood 
May C. Wood 
Walter W. Wood, Jr. 
Bessie Abbott 
Leo Evans 
Mary Graham 

Mar. 3, 1908. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOK 

Florence M. Mclndoo 
Damiella I. Fee 
Elizabeth Schindler 
Mildred A. Hubert 
Leonhard H. Barkhardt 
Mrs. Hilda W. Hayden 
Lillian Porter 
Martha Neubauer 
Inga Margaret Paulson 
Annie Louise Knoblock 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

Mrs. Elsie Kobstedt 
Mrs. H. Agnes Phillips 
Mrs. Charlotte Kott 



Mrs. Nettie Townsend 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICAT* 

Stanley A. Allen 
Edward E. Marriott 
Mrs. Matilda Marriott 
Chu Faie Long 
Charles S. Pearson 
Mrs. Mary Mae Dougall 

Scott 
W. John Strain 
John G. Thorne 
Eugenia Torrence 
W. Everitt Van Wert 
Mrs. Maude Cleveland 

Van Wert 
Van Ogden Vogt 
Irving E. Ziegler 

May 28, 1908. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Joseph Cabus 

Mrs. Matilda Coleman 

Cecil 
Frederick Leopold Lyon 
George Bayer 
Josephine Benes 
Phillip Block 
Mrs. Minnie Fee Budd 
Minnie Dittrich 
Jeanette Dobias 
Jesse Edwards 
Antonia Elian 
Josephine Espenhain 
Henry Froehner 



Apr. 9, 1908. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION JaCob GoCtZ 

Annie Marguerite BrownErnest Graepel 
Mary Alice Brown Mollie Hajeck 

Choy Ching Mamie Handwerker 

Martha Jane English Otto Van Howe 



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Lawrence Jiminez Virginia Barnett 

Mrs. Annie Kuklis Ethel Edwards 

Anna Belle Livingstone Henry Bartunek 



Florence Margaret 

Miroude 
Pauline Novak 
Frederick Wm. Oetgen 
Pauline Pavlis 
Richard Zimmerman 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 

William R. Williams 
Mrs. Carrie Canta 

Burton 
William Rabb Craig 
Minnie McElroy 
Minnie Fraser 
George S. Hart 
Mrs. Frances Wheeler 

Hart 
J. Frederick Lockwood 
Frank Latham McKee 
J. Myrta Newbury 
Christian Bock 



Frank Chaka 
Fmil Fillipec 
Frederick Goetz 
Arthur Hess 
Rose Koerner 
Mrs. Louis Hofer 
Pauline Hofer 
Henrietta Hofer 
Helen Schaaf 
Fred. Wrobel 
Rose Wrobel 
George F. Bolz 
Margaret Bolz 
Gustave W. Luhrs 
George Rice 
Minnie Roth 
Florence Standinger 

Nov. 8, 1908. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Paul Neubauer 
Louis Boda 



Oct. 8, 1908. 
ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Alfred Favor 
Dora Martha Anderson Mary Rose 



Marian Childs 
Elizabeth Connolly 
Roy Elton Fonts 
Hattie A. Gurney 
H. R. Klopp 
Andrew Milligan 
James Blanden 
Catherine Blanden 
Kitty Blanden 



Emma Bormer 
Lena Brunette 
Rose Charvat 
Mary Charvat 
Margaret Garton 
Daniel Girod 
Marion Girod 
Fredericka Mclndoo 
Henry Millar 



ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Elizabeth Meloun 
Hugh Clelland Emma Meloun 



Ida Miroude 
Mary Pavlis 
John Rendall 
Rose Schafifer 
Camilla Slanar 
Anna Smolak 

Dec. 28, 1908. 

ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 

Olive Star Alexander 
Aristotle Herbert 

Alexander 
Henrietta Rolason 
Miles Fleetwood Gordon 
Elfrida F. Bauman 
Mary J. Bell 
Josephine M. Gleason 

(Mrs. William) 
William Kenneth 

Gilderson 
Jennie McCullough 
John Maul 
Angus Duncan 

Robertson 
Aline M. Wilson 

(Mrs. W. H.) 

ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
Mrs. Salvina Bossi 
Robert Arthur Bryant 
George S. Bruyere 
Margaret Gillis 
Zophar L- Howell 
Anna Belle C. Howell 

(Mrs. Z. L.) 
Mrs. Margaret Hyslop 
Henrietta Hyslop 
Blanche G. Lark 

(Mrs. Charles T.) 



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